Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned their popularity, at least in part, by remaining less than a threat to a student's grade-point average are: Humanities 9a, "Oral and Early Literature"; Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing"; Social Sciences 160, "Nonverbal Communication"; Fine Arts 13, "Introduction to the History of Art" (generally considered a gut only when taken pass/fail); and Astronomy 8, "Cosmic Evolution...
Perhaps the gut feeling of degeneracy or de-evolutionary decadence that I described as a responsive chord to the chanting is a harbinger of what's to come. After all, we only need look at the past, at the Romans who clad themselves in togas and indulged in orgies and drink and subsequently lost their structure, their discipline, their empire, and most importantly their culture as we are losing ours to the tube. We are now experiencing the emergence of punk rock which is nothing more than powerfully amplified chants, moronic mindless chants. One punk group calls itself...
They are certainly singing and dancing with gut-lusty abandon in Eubie! If the twelve members of the cast were sent to Washington, they could undoubtedly resolve the energy crisis in two hours. Yet as a musical revue without a narrative line or cohesive theme, Eubie! ranks as a mini-clone of Ain 't Misbehavin '. That is not too difficult to understand, since Fats Waller's musical imagination was richer than Blake's in wit, satire and sophistication. Eubie! is thoroughly entertaining and unerringly professional, but it bubbles more often than it blazes...
...season opens this afternoon with what has to be considered a gut compared to the rest of the schedule -- the MIT Engineers. Except that this year the booters are not settling for a Pass; they are shooting for the 'A', summa cum laude, the Latin Oration at Commencement -- the works...
This obsession with suits and ties is a national liability. Suits, ties and jackets serve mainly to conceal. Have you ever thought of what it would do for the nation's physical fitness if every fat gut were on display...