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...platitudes like peace and justice, without ever confronting the fact that for most people, the real issue is something on a less lofty plane: personal survival. In remaining pure, they avoid recognition of the New Bedfords around them, where working class people both black and white confront the gut issues of life...
Next, the article directly suggests that the subjects taught under the Department are of no intellectual value, using the term "gut" to describe nearly all of its courses. Regarding the specific course mentioned, the correct statistics available at the studies department were: A-.25 per cent, B+ to D, 50 per cent. In comparison with other courses in the college, there exists no evidence that the Afro-American Studies Department's grade sheet is higher or lower than that of any other department. I suggest that authors of future articles on the Department use more reliable sources than jocks...
...gut issue of taxation, for example, the Republican platform pledges "further tax reform," but the President has not dropped the slightest hint of whose taxes might be raised how much. Nor has he ever confirmed or denied the persistent speculation that he might propose a value-added tax (VAT), a kind of national sales tax. Treasury Secretary George Shultz, who has once again become Nixon's closest economic adviser after being eclipsed last year by John Connally, told Congress last week that "the probability that the President would want to do it is declining." Shultz offered no guidance...
...course of the summer, I had opportunities to interview representatives of most of the mayor political releases Gregory Peck, the producer of Catonsville Nine was the first I talked with and had the least to say. He decided to back the production, out of a gut level reaction against what was happening in Vietnam if he had personal politics at all they were directed against our totalitarian cultural blandness and could not be specified particularly by the star of Marooned and The Chairman. Later talks with Jeremy Larner screenwriter of The Candidate and Ron O'Neal, the star of Super...
...emphasis on issues, staying out of the political fray will not be easy for an old gut-fighter, however much reformed. When Nixon hears the bell, his first impulse is to come out punching. One skeptical liberal Republican expects the campaign to be "very presidential in the beginning, but pretty soon there will be lots of Democratic bait. Nixon will rise to it." But so far, so gentle. As an illustration of the style now in favor, neither the President nor his press secretary responded to Ramsey Clark's broadcast from Hanoi accusing the U.S. of bombing the dikes...