Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheer respect for Henrik Ibsen (even Ibsen at his worst), provided the momentum for last night's production at the Loeb. Director Caroline Cross persistently believed in the applicability of the play, and a good cast went far toward transforming grandiose chit-chat into drama...
...sheer macabre finesse the honors would undoubtedly fall to one Lowell House student. One crisp winter day not many years ago he tied one end of a wire around his neck and the other to a radiator beneath his fourth story window. When he jumped, the wire snapped tight ten feet from the ground. The next morning when one of the kitchen help came in for work she found his head staring back at her from the top of the entry steps...
Many newspaper publishers question whether such sheer bulk has carried the U.S. Sunday newspaper several compass points off journalism's true course. While the typical metropolitan Sunday paper has grown from 111 to 243 pages in the last 20 years, its news content has shrunk from 11.6% to 6.5%. Unlike its slender-and more single-minded-daily brethren, which are deeply embedded in the work week, the Sunday paper must snare that most elusive of all readers: the American at play. Two-day weekends, new leisure pursuits, and the emergence of television's mesmeric eye all have conspired...
That was too much for Mayor Mardian, a Republican, who denounced the charges as "sheer nonsense." Also appalled were Phoenix's powerful, conservative Gazette and Arizona Republic, which at first were reluctant to attack the committee, although they had given Charter Government strong support in the past. Despite the backing of Phoenix newspapers, Charter Government ran scared, spent more time defending itself against the pro-Communist charge than boasting of its solid civic record...
...reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence of all the characteristics that make him a remarkable man. Its outstanding characteristic is its sheer lack of complication, its sense of inevitability...