Word: merely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AFTER WEEK, he leaves them all disemboweled--leaves them with so much cheap comment over his simple, warm homily. For a week, America stopped for him. The granite monuments and the country-of-many-crises blurred in the background of his presence, all the analyses were mere enatter. Who is he? "A pilgrim of faith," he answered in Boston. A mission to America, "a successor of Peter." The Pope who lived, who lives. The Pope who came with a message and left America all by itself, and suddenly there is a catharsis to be found in the ponderous eyes...
...Brighton his mere appearance on the dais sparked more spirited applause than Callaghan's best lines had received. Speaking in a sibilant, upper-class accent, his cricketer-pink cheeks crinkling with earnestness, the former viscount called for bold economic and social reforms and vowed to wage "a tremendous battle" against "decaying capitalism." One hint of policies to come under a future Benn government: a conference vote in favor of renationalizing -without compensation-the industries that the Thatcher government is partially selling off to the private sector...
...been spectacular, but that goes for its gyrations too. Though investors by the thousands routinely speculate on possible price movements of the yellow metal by buying and selling so-called futures contracts on commodities markets, trading in the actual gold itself is much more limited, and a mere handful of big investors can and do bring about significant changes in price. In just four weeks, gold leaped from $330 per oz. to hit $447, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of last week. Anyone who plunged in for a quick killing at the wrong moment...
...Schultz is dazzled by wealth and privilege, just as wealth and privilege are made giddy by his own crude energy. But Donleavy seems not to have asked himself how he feels about these matters, and the disappointing result of this lack of viewpoint is a comedy that is mostly mere commotion...
Dartmouth fell Saturday, 3-0, to an undefeated Yale squad in New Haven while racking up a meager 84 yards in total offense. Signal-caller Jeff Kemp went 5-17 through the air for a mere 31 yards. Wide receiver Dave Shula snagged only two passes for 13 yards...