Word: gutted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apprehensions. Eunice Shriver, who relishes politics as much as any Kennedy, is similarly negative about 1972. "Some day I'd like to see him in the White House." she says, "but only when he's ready." Ted himself, for all his campaigning, says reflectively, "I feel in my gut that it's the wrong time, that it's too early." And yet, when a friend recently asked Kennedy why he did not take himself out of the running with a Sherman statement, the Senator replied, "Why should I? I'd lose all my influence. I'd just be a Senator...
...Chief who was forced to resign nine days later when strong evidence revealed he was linked to the Detroit Mafia. Scandals in the Civil Service Commission and the Department of Weights and Measures contributed to a growing feeling among whites that Stokes was getting rich off the city. A gut feeling that someone is a crook cannot be destroyed by factual evidence, and the power of rumors of Stokes' supposed financial misdeeds was incredible. In addition, white paranoia manifested itself in widely-circulated stories of Stokes' alleged relations with white women...
Rabbit now sees himself as a C-minus human being, and practically boasts, "1 don't think enough to know what 1 think." His gut reaction to difficult issues is a cynical conservatism. Like so many lifers with little hope of parole, he defends his prison because he must live in it. From this human and literary dead end, Updike leads Rabbit back to a measure of vitality. Not surprisingly, the agents of change come courtesy of the youth rebellion and those threatening yet fascinating blacks...
Between Big Tex and the livestock beauty parades lies the heart of every fair: the midway. Texan or otherwise, breathes there a man with soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir...
...Yankees summoning up 20-game winners from the farm system. Various Hair troupes produced Superstar's Judas and Jesus. A Superstar concert tour and the LP provided Mary Magdalene and Pilate. "There's a special kind of singer needed for rock opera," O'Horgan explains. "It's much more gut, more street. We have vocal ranges in this show that no one could produce without a mike, not even Birgit Nilsson...