Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skowhegan discovered that Douglas' isle of dreams is rapidly being converted into a larger Coney Island with peculiar Mediterranean overtones. Last year Capri's 9,000 inhabitants watched 1,250,690 visitors scurry about the island; this year even more tourists are expected. Recoiling at the mere memory of Capri's milling mob of middle-class humanity, one starchy American matron indignantly proclaimed: "And for this I gave up a papal audience...
Identifying anti-lambdas and their relatives is no mere collecting program, like filling out a series of postage stamps. The behavior of each new particle can be studied, yielding bits of knowledge not only about ordinary matter but about antimatter as well. It may have anti-gravity threading through its masses. There is even a possibility-something to think about, at least-that in the strange world of antimatter, time may run in reverse...
...past hundred years," he maintains, "has been as much against society as possible. The critics say, 'This is art,' and so the public accepts it. The insider is trying to return to the aim of art in ages past; he is portraying the raw thing-not mere elegance or mere social concepts either. He is totally unconcerned with what kind of figure he cuts in the arena. His qualities are personal, and they come out of suffering. A face is only interesting when it reveals that it has experienced something, that it has been shaped by life...
...Santa Claus (Caedmon) with the air of a sleepwalker groping in a murky crypt; John Masefield sibilates waveringly through his The Story of Ossian (Argo) in a reading that does nothing to relieve the poem's turgid dramatic flow. The opposite failing-a tendency to rhetoric where mere passion would do-mars Sir Ralph Richardson's swooning reading of The Poetry of Keats (Caedmon), and turns Carl Sandburg's A Lincoln Album (Caedmon) into an uneasy collection of pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop...
...proved that, willingly or not, he is the Reds' best tool in Latin America since Jacobo Arbenz fled Guatemala in 1954 and eventually fetched up in Prague, Czechoslovakia. And he is a strongman of terrifying power. No Cuban could feel safe when one man could, with mere words, so quickly reduce the President of his country to the status of a traitor...