Word: merest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...here, as in her earlier books (The Hard Blue Sky and The Black Prince and Other Stories), is not plot but the endless flux of feeling. Writers of encyclopaedic novels would do well to read her-and learn how to catch the shape of a lifetime in the merest shadow of an event...
...conferred, a few hundred demonstrators, led by Jacques Soustelle, marched down the Champs Elysees crying "Algerie Française!" and "Bourguiba assassin!" Most Parisians watched with indifference and went their way. One cafe waiter, a veteran connoisseur of Parisian riots, said contemptuously, "This is the merest caricature of a demonstration...
...push beyond specific race problems to a basic human-race one. Its serious and growing weakness is that to what is largely familiar material it brings little rewarding development, so that together with repeating others, it more and more repeats itself. Once the paint wears thin, there is the merest plywood behind it; but the paint itself is fresh...
...other's arms in Hiroshima. Their bodies fill the screen in a luminous abstract of desire. But into this image of life burst images of death-recorded by Japanese cameramen who moved into Hiroshima the day after the bomb fell. Director Resnais permits himself no sensationalism, but the merest glimpses of the horror that was Hiroshima-acres of charred and moaning humanity-remind the audience with cruel force that the man and woman are making love in a mass grave...
...legend, well cultivated by Northern liberals, that Johnson's Southern blood is laced with Bourbon conservatism. The legend is untrue and unfair, as a scrutiny of his voting record reveals. Johnson stands ideologically to the right of Kennedy, Symington and Hubert Humphrey-but it is the merest shade to the right. He has always upheld his oil-rich constituents, voting to give the tidelands to the states and steadfastly opposing any attempts to cut oil and natural gas depletion allowances-but no Texas politician in his right mind would do otherwise. In 1958, he opposed a school construction grant...