Word: gruffness
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...listening to two new LPs drawn from tapes of the Carnegie concert and another Guthrie Memorial held at the Hollywood Bowl in 1970. Especially intriguing is the variety of musical treatment to which Woody's songs lend themselves. On the one hand there is Richie Havens turning the gruff, striding Vigilante Man into a mournful, gripping blues ballad. Or Odetta, virtually inventing a western soul style for the happy-go-lucky Ramblin' Round. When Guthrie talked about hard rock he meant a substance men mined in a hole in the ground-something you'd never guess listening...
Yemen's Major General Hassan Amri had long been noted for his sulfurous temper, and his desk-pounding rages frequently sent aides fleeing from his office in terror. But despite his reputation for hotheadedness, the gruff general, 48, had managed to become Premier of the primitive Arab nation no fewer than seven times since 1962, when nationalist forces supported by Egyptian troops overthrew the conservative Moslem imamate.* Now, however, Amri's temper has apparently cost a young Yemeni shopkeeper his life and Amri his job as Premier and commander in chief of the armed forces. It is unlikely...
...longer underestimated. For many years, his brand of unionism has been rather flippantly declared an anachronism?much too parochial and materialistic for a society with a strong streak of idealism. While other labor leaders graduated to a more sophisticated statesmanship, Meany stayed the same, still speaking in the gruff accents of his Bronx boyhood, still looking like the traditional portly boss with heavy lids drooping threateningly over steel-gray eyes. His ever-present cigar only served to complete the unflattering picture...
...Rodeo. The ride turns up only after my cheek muscles start to ache from holding a perpetual cheery smile. I ask a pilot "Going west?" and he answers "Yup." He consults his employers, and suddenly I am climbing into a Mitsubishi twinjet, courtesy of a gruff Chicago executive named Joseph Salvato, a first-generation Sicilian whose cousin John jokingly calls him "God." We land at Hinsdale, Ill., 17 miles from Chicago...
...room where the first conference was held 14 months ago, he immediately let loose a few choice expletives about the hot TV lights. A trembling technician quickly switched them off. Then Yahya started in on the journalists. "Don't play politics with me," he snapped in his characteristically gruff bass, "because I'll play politics with...