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Central to the songs of this team is the faithfulness of the lyrics to the gut essentials of emotion and the accompanying faithfulness of the music to the erratic course the relentlessly frank lyrics take. And thrown in with all this are the rhythmic patterns, which fluctuate wildly as the words shifts (often suddenly) between hope and despair...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: If Conrad Birdie Came Back to Broadway, Would He Have to Drop Some Acid First? | 2/27/1969 | See Source »

...sure what I wanted to do for a career, I became steadily less so. I was in many ways a typical 1965 freshman: getting drunk on weekends, pulling all-nighters and cutting some classes, primarily to prove my independence from parental authority, partly to get the feel in my gut of a new kind of freedom. And now, I am as typical a 1969 senior: unhappy with the formal education of Harvard College, loathe to go to graduate school, totally uninterested in business, less concerned about a career than about a life, wanting to create and worrying whether...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer president, | Title: A Parting Shot | 2/3/1969 | See Source »

...stricken freshman described the illness as "just feeling rotten all over, particularly in the gut." Another said "My stomach felt like it was having inner turmoil. My head was throbbing like a bell-tower. I felt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Bug' Flattens Freshmen; Potatoes Under Suspicion | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

Graebner opened the Challenge Round in Adelaide, Australia, last week on a chilly, gusty day. Normally as taut as the gut strings in his racket, he played confidently, looking to the sidelines now and then for reassurance from Dell. At every crucial point, Dell leaned forward in his chair and turned the palm of his hand downward. Meaning: cool it, baby. Though he started haltingly, Graebner soon found his booming serve and defeated Australian Bill Bow-rey 8-10, 6-4, 8-6, 3-6, 6-1. Ashe, as calm and poised as a man taking his morning constitutional, kept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: That Special Feeling | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

...Russell Baker might make us forget the assorted woes of the world. Under Pilavachi's heavy hand, however, the whole plan backfires. By the time we get done with it, we've forgotten our minor worries, all right. We've forgotten them because now we're saddled with such gut-busting laughers as napalm raids and hungry Africans and political assassinations. Better to buy five copies of the Times...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: The Lampoon | 12/2/1968 | See Source »

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