Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed the case. Time does not permit the type of investigation which a decision maker should ideally undertake. Therefore, one must take to the decision making function as much general knowledge as possible. If the traditional liberal arts education has a practical function, it is to refine one's "gut reactions." No rule ever determines its own application, and the areas for human discretion are far broader than I would like to have them...
...like everybody went out and bought a gun," one officer recalls. Now that so many guns are handy, the argument over the kitchen table at 2 a.m., which might once have ended in a punch in the nose, has a good chance of ending with a bullet in the gut. The police log offers these samples: an argument in the Red Dog Bar, a disagreement in Cherry's Poolroom, a quarrel over the whereabouts of the money from the welfare check, an argument over rent. Narcotics were involved in 10% to 12% of the homicides; most of the victims...
...alto saxophone without a repeat, then pause, breathe from his toes and blow ten more, bending and coloring the notes with a broad double-edged sound. Technically, his music was fiendishly complex; emotionally it was a pure sound riding a column of air that came straight from the gut. It was the kind of music musicians dream about...
...fastest rate of gain since the Korean War. Even the most optimistic prognosticators in Washington conceded that, if nothing were done to stop the fast climb, it would continue at least until July and perhaps longer. For consumers, the problem of high and rising food prices is literally a gut issue, and they have been demanding with ever greater insistence that President Nixon clamp on controls...
...vision. One reason for their challenge may be the new concern for ecology, which affirms John Donne's precept that the death of any life diminishes all. Another may be the lingering vision from the moon of spaceship earth. The counterculture concept of a "new consciousness" is often gut emotion, a kind of pantheism that recalls the Romanticism of the 19th century...