Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artists have turned their hands to many things besides kimonos, curved swords and block prints of Fujiyama; 2) Japanese art derives very largely from the Chinese (which had a 2,500-year head start), and in Japanese adaptations, the fire and depth of the greatest Chinese art often becomes mere chic...
...readers of Bradbury's science fiction will guess, his Martians are no mere bogymen. They are highly intelligent, peace-loving beings who happen to land on the earth by error while on their way to another planet. All they want is to repair their space ship and move on. They do not want to encounter any human beings, who have not reached the advanced stage of civilization essential to such a meeting. The Martians' appearance-the face is a bare, embryo-like mass with a looming eye fixed in the center-would alarm the humans...
Russell Kirk* has news for most Americans: "Conservatism is something deeper than mere defense of shares and dividends, something nobler than mere dread of what is new." The American asks: "Is it? And if so, what?" The question has a special interest to a nation which is the reputed champion of a position that has almost dropped out of its own conversation...
...that he had almost no neck, Garry Templemore was a fine baby. With proper feeding and education he might have overcome the handicap of having four hands and become, like his father Douglas Templemore, a British newspaperman. But the world was not destined to know. Garry was a mere 24 hours old when his father gave him a lethal shot of strychnine...
...Novelist Jean Dutourd's dour little satire, A Dog's Head, in which the human hero was born with the head of a spaniel, it may half persuade U.S. readers that French literature is now steering hell-bent for zoology. But Paranthropus erectus is, in effect, a mere monkey trick to help Author Vercors raise the question: What...