Word: guts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right things and got into Harvard and went. And Dave pumps gas on 100th street and when I asked the gas station owner where Dave was he said that Dave quit the gas station; that we works for U.S. Steel now like he knew in his gut he would when he was eight years old. And he'll get drafted and go to Nam and maybe die or come home and go back to the mills and marry a secretary and watch TV and bowl and he knows more about what a lie social mobility is than do many college...
...news stories out of Viet Nam that ran counter to the cheery calculations of Robert McNamara's Pentagon computers and the bravado of the generals. But he was always tugged by reason and maybe, just maybe, had he lived to face the crunch he might have overwhelmed his gut, which said fight, and gone by his head, which suggested that Communists were not as bad as they used to be and, besides, wars on mainland Asia were not an American calling...
Angry Wolves. One of the gut issues continues to be white-collar jobs for project residents. Dr. Jack Geiger, the center's creator, points out that pumping large amounts of cash-the current budget is $1.4 million-into a desperately poor area is risky. "It's like throwing a pound of meat to 50 angry wolves," he says. "They'll kill each other to get a bite." But racial pride and sensitivity about the condescending attitudes of some white professionals are also crucial factors. Gloria Nelms, a black former psychiatric counselor at Columbia Point who is among...
...polls suggest that McGovern's sense of moral outrage is not shared by most Americans, who tend to go along with Nixon's gut conviction that a U.S. President cannot simply get out of Viet Nam without an "honorable" settlement. As Gelb, now with the Brookings Institution, says, it is true "both that the American people want out and that they don't want the place handed over to the Communists...
...more New Bedfords than there are Newtons. But beyond this probable defeat lies the failure of American liberalism today to form a philosophy broad enough to encompass the urban working class as well as the suburban elite. For the present, liberalism deals only with platitudes, not the gut concerns of people. And as such, it is doomed to a never-ending series of righteous, but inevitable, defeats...