Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drunk; scattered moments are touching or sharp. But the man in the dog suit is the same man who has wooed conformity to win security, who has shaken with fright and then shaken himself free, in a dozen earlier tales. Every in-law who is not a mere caricature is a safe cliché; every point is made twice; realistic satire keeps dwindling into formula or crashing into farce. And in his way of finally rebelling against the bank, the hero is really succumbing to popular theater. What the authors should have remembered to chant each time they settled down...
...there is more to this decision than mere dissatisfaction with the current cheerleaders' behavior and organization. Pretty clearly the Council hopes that its athlete-cheerleaders will command more support from the stands than even the most sedate and well-organized bunch of lay-cheerers. It believes that most undergraduate spectators will know by sight at least a few of the prominent athletes holding the megaphones, and will respond more eagerly to their urgings...
...wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the mere recital of the story in Oedipus would have on one." The highly stylized production of Sophocles' masterpiece now playing at the Brattle is sure to be the subject of heated controversy in many a Hum 5 section and coffee house; but the iron anatomy remains which no mode of production...
...northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take their own photographers along with them to demonstrations just to prove they have not beaten anyone up. The mere suggestion of brutality can mean loss of pay or demotion...
...difficulties comparable to the Berlioz, and musical problems that are much deeper. But the orchestra had solved most of the technical problems, and conductor Attilio Poto showed not only his usual control and precision, but also an interpretation which was neither unusual nor detailed, but was remarkable in its mere presence. Too often, his sole concern has been with "the notes" rather than the more profound problems of musicality, and this performance represented a refreshing change...