Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...subtle than a full blown farce or a thigh slapping burlesque. It's a delicate and good-humored satire, the type of play that fits in nicely with the new wave in dramatic taste here. Many students, tired of the riddles of absurdist pieces or the flamboyance of outrageous gut-splitters have come to appreciate more comfortable, less taxing plays, in which authors clearly intend to provide audiences with an evening of thoughtful levity...
...constant motion. Inside the ring he dodges imaginary blows; he launches lefts and rights at the air, then spars for four hard rounds. Next Frazier pounds the bags as if hoping to shred them. The workout ends with 20 sit-ups and a beating around the gut with the medicine ball that brings a roar from the mixed crowd of fighters, trainers and well-dressed onlookers who drop in for the free show. Before they can press round Frazier, he is whisked away to a private room in his carpeted, lavishly appointed training quarters...
...adviser, Henry A. Kissinger '50, devised a detailed position that Rockefeller could espouse. Their plan was "progressive" in 1968. It called for free elections and a gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops. But it was a devised position, nothing Rocky felt in his gut. Witness a press conference on March 21, 1968, just before he decided to acquire a position...
What could eventually turn the South against Nixon is that he has not acted with the personal honor that the region has always valued. It is the gut that may react first, as it did with the patrons in the saloon owned by Manuel Maloof, a power in the Democratic Party in De Kalb County, Ga. Maloof was bartending when the news of the missing tapes was reported on TV. "You wouldn't believe the look on their faces," he recalls. "They can't believe this guy. I'm honestly afraid he might force a revolt...
This is the POWER that is the gut issue in this election: Power for a few self-serving politicians or power shared among the greater Cambridge community...