Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help to Jamaican aspirations. At 78, Busta sometimes rambles a bit, dreamily reliving his days of street-level anticolonialism. But his bright young organizers quickly saw that Manley's more-stability, more-investment arguments aimed at the middle class produced less vote power than songs, rhythm and sheer noise aimed at the 93% of Jamaicans in the have-not category. A calypso called Freedom Story quickly caught...
...finesse. "The strategy is to try to captivate us without allowing us to become aware of what is being done to us. If this sly approach does not do the trick, Madison Avenue has further psychological weapons in its armory. If all else fails, it will resort to sheer bullying." Then Dr. Toynbee reaches a startling conclusion: "I would suggest that the destiny of our Western civilization turns on the issue of our struggle with all that Madison Avenue stands for more than it turns on the issue of our struggle with Communism...
Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...
Some readers also object to the book's italicized talkiness. But the talk, like the book itself, is dazzling, joyous and satisfying. Holden Caulfield was a gentle heart who lacked the strength to survive; Zooey and his sister in the end are harried but whole. Above all, by sheer force of eye and ear?rather than by psychologizing, which he detests?Salinger has given them, like Holden, an astonishing degree of life, a stunning and detailed air of presence. So real are the Glasses in fact (an American student in Venice remembers that some one called him excitedly from...
Homicidal. Made in imitation of Hitchcock's Psycho, it surpasses its model in structure, suspense and sheer nervous drive...