Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Above all, there is no accord on the gut issue of how high or how low prices should be stabilized under any new agreements. Many developing nations, for example, want to "index" raw materials prices to the trend of world prices for all kinds of goods as a method of transferring wealth from rich countries to poor lands. The U.S. and most other industrial nations fear that indexing would touch off a permanent runaway inflation that would hurt the whole world. For that matter, there is not even agreement within the Administration on how conciliatory U.S. policy should be. Kissinger...
...patriotic felt in the heat of last summer's battle. His identification with O'Neill is nearly complete, and he respects the emotion which causes O'Neill, no matter how many times he passes the lit dome of the Capitol, to "get a feeling right here," in his massive gut. O'Neill goes on to say that "it stands for stability. You see that dome up there, you know that nobody is going to let anything bad happen. You die before you let this country down...
...boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...suburbia he is unsurpassed. But a sociologist is something different from a novelist. He is an onlooker--in Updike's case, a perceptive and entertaining one--and he watches from a safe distance. The artist who stands removed from the scene and the people he describes risks losing a gut sensibility that a sociologist, after...
...money; it's his "obsession." For Cassavetes is one of those oddities known as an artist who is often dealt with as such only after the fact--that is, in the mummified context of crusty lecture halls and dusty museums. He speaks not to the mind, but to the gut...