Word: gutted
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...Gut-fighting gives him a certain attractiveness. Mailer ame to Harvard last weekend, lashed out at the prevailing order, and half of his audience stood to applaud him. So during a half day in Cambridge, Mailer won the renewed enthusiasm of his seconds. He got a little ragged in the tenth round, he said, but he was generally pleased with his performance and the reception he enjoyed from his fans. He's not quite so popular at other schools; he's already been through the drug scene, the sex scene, and the political scene while many are just finding...
...drop zone, the 50-odd men in the platoon soon discover that they are in fact hopelessly trapped. After a few days of unrelieved agony, death becomes relatively unimportant. What matters more is how it will come. Using prose as direct and brutal as a trench knife to the gut, and with utter fidelity to military fact, the author meticulously ticks off the manner in which each man dies. The Cauldron may not win a prize as high art, but as an unsparing and authentic eyewitness account of the sights and sounds and pains of war, it is a bitterly...
...course is not a new idea. In the late '50's and early '60's Harvard had a Gen Ed course called "Economics of the Citizen" which tried this approach. It never became as popular as the more rigorous Ec 1. Eventually it gained the reputation of being a gut of little substance that the self-respecting avoided. Gill argues that talking explicitly about controversy isn't always the best way to equip students to talk about political problems--"you can't just describe economics--you've got to get down to working those damn curves to understand the problems...
...TIME says the aphorism on Mr. Gardner's desk, "Das Beste ist gut genug," Is by an "unknown" writer. Actually, it is by the not entirely unknown German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Italienische Reise (Italian Journey'), we find: "In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug" (In art the best is good enough...
...Chevy Chase, Md., home, and he usually jots down his day's agenda on a lined yellow pad during the 35-minute drive to his office. On Gardner's desk is a copy of an aphorism written in German by an unknown author: "Das Beste is gut genug"-the best is good enough. Behind the desk is a framed photo of the President with the inscription, "Now, John, I mean it. We must cut down on spending...