Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Phyllis Smith's poems are three brave attempts to make words into sights and songs and children's voice. Her hard, heavy lines and sheer, skimming ones are packed with consonants, alliterative even driving, to suggest the twist of a bronze by Henry Moore or the voice of a counter tenor, or a child's playing. Even more than the others, Reclining Figure is of substantial pauses that might better be heard than read...
...Hair & Crew Cuts. In Ishihara's first novel, Taiyo-no-Kisetsu (Season of the Sun), boys and girls with no other purpose in life than sheer enjoyment found described a way of life exactly to their taste. The cynical, lusty tale of the love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name...
...devote my time to them and I'm blessed with their confidence." He was best man when Harry James married Betty Grable, gave the bride away when Sinatra married Ava Gardner. In a world of sharkskin-suited man-eaters, he has risen to the top by sheer amiability, consideration and eagerness to please. Once when he was flying to Hollywood with Milton Berle, the comedian exclaimed unhappily that he had forgotten to buy life insurance for the flight. "Have half of mine," said Manie graciously, and endorsed his policy accordingly...
Questions, however, are rarely asked in today's classes, even when the lecturer solicits them. This might be ascribed to sheer apathy, but exhaustion is probably a more frequent cause. Students might confront their professors with problems raised by the lecture, if they were not bogged down in the stultifying task of transcribing lecture notes. Since lectures often serve as a major source of information in courses, the student feels an obligation to "get everything down." The result is an aching, sweaty palm, quite often a muddled idea of the points in the lecture, and an hour of thoughtless stenography...
...explain why he himself wrote, Frost cited a line in his The Tufts of Flowers, ". . . .from sheer morning gladness at the brim...