Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calculated not to warm the reader but to awe him-a familiar feat for British Novelist James Hanley, 61, whose past novels have won him critical, but not popular, acclaim for their cold fury. Herbert Read has called Hanley a "great realist." and C. P. Snow writes that for "sheer power he is not surpassed by any contemporary...
Their paths next crossed in 1960. when Marianne, by then a general-assignments reporter in Hearst's Washington bureau, showed up on Kennedy's campaign. Sheer luck had put her there-everybody else in the bureau was sick at the time-but Kennedy remembered her. After the election, he had a talk with Hearst National Editor Frank Conniff. "Are you going to send Marianne to the White House?" asked Kennedy. Conniff, who had not intended to send anyone, lost no time in complying...
...addition to the priests, TV's new professional men include a lawyer and a clutch of newsmen. The tough, quick-thinking, steel-trap lawyer is NBC's Sam Benedict, played by Edmond O'Brien with sheer nervous drive, solving ten cases an hour, picking up phones, barking, slamming them down, dictating letters at 200 words a minute, grabbing punks by the throat, and so on. Statistically, a man like that ought to have a nervous breakdown at least once a week...
...Thailand). It can also lead to Congressional veto of funds whose usefulness in the immediate bipolar cause is hardly obvious. The second approach has the advantage of subtly prodding the guilt-consciousness of Representatives or their constituents. But the Congress has sufficient sophistication to realize that aid administered for sheer compassion will be badly administered; it will usually involve the curious obeisance toward the explicit wishes of new governments for which the U.S. has gained a bad reputation...
Part of Graham Greene is genius and part sheer fudge, but which part is which and in what proportion? After following Greene through a dozen books from the London Embankment to the banks of the Congo (with scene-setting rainwater running down the back of his neck all the while), the reader sees at last that more than half of Greene's attraction lies in this uncertainty. The republication of this 1934 novel (Greene's fifth), never widely read in the U.S. or in Great Britain, is a fresh and welcome opportunity to test-taste the mixture...