Word: merely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation, and the only real danger in it is that it might become a generation of grinds. Just as the goldfish swallower is dead, so, to a large extent, is the dilettante and the knowledge-for-knowledge's-sake boy. Today's student has little patience with mere intellectual flash. Nor is he particularly tolerant of any form of obscurantism. "The college student," says Editor Howard Seemen of the University of Minnesota's Minnesota Daily, "wants something he can put his hands on. The double meaning is not popular...
...mere parroter of the Gospel, Elias displays an exceptional knowledge of the Scriptures. Two weeks after he began his meetings, he was drawing crowds of 2,000 and 3,000 people. With the jungle grapevine at work, word spread that he had the power of miracle healing, and hundreds of sick and maimed Africans in Rhodesia flocked to pray at his feet...
Every year a substantial minority of the college devotes most of its energy to rejecting Harvard's ideals and evading the responsibilities which Harvard attempts to impose. This can mean anything from neurotic delinquency to mere failure to complete academic assignments, and only occasionally includes departure from the University. The Exeter syndrome is the same thing, only more so, concentrated in a smaller group of people...
...impact of real-life truthfulness Compulsion does have, often very impressively. It recapitulates just what happened, and how, and why; it impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation...
...Broods Easy. The Irish quality of McNulty's New York is more than the green ice cubes that appear on St. Patrick's Day to startle the unwary. It is a place of great men in small jobs, stubbornly resisting the mere geographical transition from Mayo or Offaly or Cork to a great city; it is a place echoing with anecdote, irony and the great Irish wastefulness of spirit involved in drink, tragic brooding and baffled frustration about women. "He's Irish and he broods easy," says one McNulty character of another...