Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer act of getting something done, Warton and Von Rosen have won applause from a legion of frustrated humanitarians. Relief officials who elected to go through the usual channels have encountered, and sometimes created, a wall of Byzantine obstruction. Tons of food are now stockpiled on the islands of Fernando Poo and Sao Tome, in Lagos and at other points?but the combatants cannot agree on how it is to be delivered. Nigeria insists that it come by overland route, where federal forces can make an in spection for arms. Biafra insists on an air route, claiming that the Nigerians...
Although the work baffled some and bemused others, it had a cohesive rhythm of its own, and it succeeded in gripping the attention of the Tanglewood audience through its sheer theatrical flair. Silverman, 30, is music director of Manhattan's Lincoln Center Repertory Theater and an evangelist for a new form of music-theater. As a former student of Leon Kirchner and Darius Milhaud, he has a solid background in "pure" classical composition. But, he says, "I wanted to get into pop music and rock. I can do this much better than the other stuff. Musical comedy...
...Sheer Volatility. Most pollsters agree that a sampling of something like 1,500 people yields a fairly comprehensive picture of national trends and opinions. For last week's sampling, Gallup used 1,156 interviews gathered from throughout the country, Harris 1,346 and Crossley 1,976. All but 219 of Harris' samplings were reinterviews...
...sheer volatility of voter sentiment this year probably contributed to the wide differences in the pollsters' findings. Though the primaries were over, some of the same factors still applied: a plethora of candidates, no established party tickets, and moiling confusion in both parties over the issues. Despite the pollsters' fatiloquent accuracy in past years, they have stumbled often in the past six months. Almost all, for example, have consistently underestimated Eugene McCarthy's considerable strength. Harris and Gallup have frequently differed in their preference surveys, though never so widely as in the preconvention week...
...reputation for bigness, S.O.M. earned a name for high-quality design with Manhattan's Lever House. Lever has since been copied so often?and so badly?that it has lost much of its impact. But 16 years ago, it astonished and delighted the U.S. In its use of sheer glass curtain walls, its spacious plaza (75% of the site), and bold positioning of horizontal slab and vertical shaft, it was revolutionary. More than any other, it set the style of office buildings in the 1950s and '60s. Even today, despite rumors that the company will tear down and rebuild...