Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before he died at 94, Bernard Berenson confided to his diary: "Only in what might be called my old age have I become aware of sex and the animal in woman." William Butler Yeats, who finally married at 52, was well into his 70s before he began trumpeting the raw sexuality of The Wild Old Wicked Man. Victor Hugo, at 82, told the French Senate with a wicked exuberance: "It is difficult for a man of my years to address such an august body. Almost as difficult as it is for a man of my years to make love three...
...Washington Monthly has no ads and no pictures, just 80 pages of raw, ugly type. The variety is in the typography; some pieces are set two columns to a page of very small type, some are set one column of very large type, one has unjustified (uneven) lines of very large type. The type, someone said, looks like it comes from the Lord and Taylor catalogue, long and thin and soul-less...
Higher totals, however, do not tell the whole story. The profit gains were in inflated dollars, which have less purchasing power when plowed back into raw materials, expanded inventories or new plants. Some companies also made their profits look better by changes in accounting methods, notably to straight-line depreciation procedures, by which equipment costs are distributed over a greater number of years. Items...
...prospective jurors mercilessly for psychic defects, while private investigators may conduct exhaustive examinations of their private lives. Even before a trial starts, a candidate for the jury must usually wait around for hours in grey, dingy courthouse rooms. Once the case is under way, the testimony may be pretty raw. Mrs. L. L. Peterson of Houston, who served on a jury in a torture-murder case a few years ago, described the evidence as "gruesome and sickening." And the ordeal does not always end with the trial. A Floridian who sat on a jury that acquitted a man of murder...
...revolution?separatist, militant and proud?has no use for the white man, especially the white man who is also a Jew. Belsen and Dachau are scars upon the Jewish memory; black nationalists deride them as evidence of Jewish submission. Says Psychologist Nathan Caplan of the University of Michigan : "The raw edge of the new anti-Semitism is not exploitation by Jewish merchants. Instead, it is almost an unwillingness to act pacifically like the Jews in Germany. Maybe they feel that the Jews set a bad example...