Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altogether out in the cold. Rather it is the hundreds who happily make the respectable and especially the most desirable clubs on the street. It is they who have consented without apparent compunctions to build their prestige, success, and social contentment on the hypocrisy, mendacity, inhumanity, servility, pettiness and sheer unreason upon which Princeton's club system and Bicker procedure are obviously reared. It's the oldest truth in creation that there is evil in the universe and it is as a realistic schooling in the world's folly and wickedness that Bicker is usually defended. In letting her students...
...opening scene the mother is bidding the Bridegroom goodbye as he goes to the vineyards. She says, "Go on. You're too big for kisses. Give them to your wife." She pauses and says to herself "When she is your wife." Under Kirby's direction this comes out as sheer bombast...
...between music critics and music lovers." His Mozart analysis was hailed by word-bound, cliche-tied British critics as "a most important departure." Keller is now working on an analysis of Beethoven's String Quartet, Opus 95. Says he: "Most of what passes for musical criticism today is sheer bunk; I think functional analysis will bring about the twilight of the twaddle." He is not disturbed by the thought that it might also spoil the market for the written criticism with which he still partly supports himself. "The critic's job," says Critic Keller, "is to make himself...
This may be sheer bathos, but, as Catton points out, such songs were often sung by young soldiers who knew that their chances of seeing home again were poor. And The Union's effective performance (it is scored for soprano and baritone soloists, a combination that evokes the longing of both the women at home and the men in the field) rarely allows sentimentality to get out of hand...
From Bust to Boom. What makes the growth even more spectacular is that the private-plane boom started off with a loud bust. During World War II so many young Americans learned to fly that small-plane makers saw visions of a U.S. on wings, flying for the sheer sport of it or touring the country in planes instead of the family car. In one heady year, the industry made 34,568 aircraft, seven years' normal production, and collapsed the market. Sport flying proved too expensive, and touring by plane found little appeal. By 1948 production was down...