Word: guts
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Robert Penn Warren is one of the few distinguished literary men who can aim a novel at the gut and not offend the head. The reason seems to be that even in the age of the Uncertainty Principle and culture fracture, Warren has not lost his sense of life as a sustained drama. The classical Western values that have linked his fiction, poetry and criticism for nearly 50 years are largely responsible. He writes novels with beginnings, middles and ends. People are born, come of age, love, suffer loss, infirmity and death in much the same way people always have...
What Wilcox is talking about is gut hunting--finding easy courses that require a minimal amount of work while offering a respectable return in grades. And, preferably, courses that keep the student interested as well...
This year's replacement for last year's biggest spring gut, Humanities 103, "The Great Age of Athens," appears to be Hum 9b. Students cited minimal requirements and a reading list that includes science fiction and old ballads as reasons for the course's popularity. And Hum 9b also has the reputation of being an all-around good course...
Does all this mean that because Nat Sci 4 lost 240 students from the fall that it isn't the gut it was considered last year? Possibly. Some students who dropped the course complained about their fall semester grades...
Shocks and Slashes. All this huggermugger could be indulgently dismissed if it were not for the ugliness and brutality of so many of the scenes. The director lacks the true thriller director's gradual gut-tightening rhythm and the subtle sense of mood that causes men ace to materialize in the viewer's imagination instead of in the special-effects department. Winner goes in for violent shocks to the nerve endings. An eye is slashed and a nose cut off, flesh is seen to decompose, a corpse is eaten, hideous deformities are paraded, and through...