Word: rawness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...WHISTLE IN THE DARK. Irish Playwright Thomas Murphy has written a drama full of the raw, roiling energy of life. The story of the Carney clan, moving in on a brother who has tried to flee their world of animal instinct, is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace. The performances are labors of love and skill, and Arvin Brown's direction is flawless...
Britain, which depends almost wholly on Canadian nickel, has been hurt worst. The country faces what the London Times calls "one of the gravest raw materials crises since wartime controls." Stainless-steel prices have climbed 35% since August. Rolls-Royce is reclaiming the metal from scrapped engines, and some auto manufacturers will probably cut down on nickel-bearing chromium trim. Lord Melchett, head of the British Steel Corp., has appealed to the Soviets, who also produce nickel, to sell more...
...this afternoon at Providence, the emotional tone of the contest will be markedly different. For the first time since 1958. a Harvard football team will be doomed to a losing season if it cannot defeat Brown, and for the first time in several years, the Bruins have enough raw material to fight a Yoviesin squad on even terms...
Harvard has yet to beat itself this season, unless one can call an impotent offense self-defeating. And the Crimson was never overmatched with regard to raw talent. Yovicsin attracts as good players to Cambridge as any other coach in the Ivy League, including McCandless at Princeton and Blackman at Dartmouth, and if Harvard has been humiliated this fall, the fault lies with Yovicsin's system...
...just because I like the drive. That area, along the shore, is my idea of California. It has the free impermanence of the place. The beach houses stand wall to wall on the sand, weather-beaten dwellings right next to opulent villas. The cliff on the other side is raw, crumbling dirt, and it periodically dumps its houses right down on the road. I get the feeling that the whole state may subside into the ocean some...