Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partly it was the sheer weight of fact: farm prosperity, signs that the recession is easing, realization that the Government faces a deficit of $10 billion or more in the fiscal year ahead, overseas rumblings showing that 1958 is no year to retreat toward isolationism by building higher tariff fences and slashing foreign aid. After pondering the facts, plus the sentiments of the voters back home, many a congressional man in motion switched direction to follow his followers...
...propaganda, Huxley begins to advocate it. The champion of laissez-faire in the marketplace of ideas becomes the proponent of guided thinking for the masses-along the proper lines, of course. Individuals, he says, "should be taught enough about propaganda analysis to preserve them from an uncritical belief in sheer nonsense, but not so much as to make them reject outright the not always rational outpourings of the well-meaning guardians of tradition. That which is merely irrational but compatible with love and freedom, and not on principle opposed to the exercise of intelligence, may be provisionally accepted for what...
...Nothing beats the sheer excitement of live TV," glowed Susskind in the darkness of NBC's vast Brooklyn sound stage one long, tense afternoon last week. Around him rolled the final rehearsals of Kraft Theater's Part 2 of All the King's Men, Novelist Robert Penn Warren's case history of a Huey Longish red-neck politician's rise and fall. Skidding between 14 sets under the glaring lights, fretting actors stumbled over camera cables. Before banks of baffling screens and switches in the darkened control room hunched wild-haired Director Sydney Lumet ("Places...
...swear to goodness, ah just can't believe all this is happenin' to li'l ole Van Cliburn from the piney woods of East Texas!" Most everybody agreed with Van. Through a rare combination of sheer talent, the tension of the cold war and the thunderous amplifier of modern publicity, the long-legged 23-year-old winner of Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Piano Competition (TIME, April 21) had overnight become the object of the most explosive single outpouring of popular acclaim ever accorded a U.S. musician. Next week Manhattan will give him a national hero...
What did the kids (average age: 23) have? Most obviously, boundless energy, meshed-gear precision, dramatic flair, sheer physical virtuosity. In superbly mounted national folk dances and "popular ballets" (original works on contemporary Russian themes), the men soared above the stage in spring-legged leaps that seemed to pin them in the air as if frozen by a strobe light, whipped their bodies into angles few Western dancers would even attempt. In Polyanka (The Meadow), files of dancers snaked across the stage in a sinuous blur of speed, hurled past one another in a complex tracery. Partisans had the black...