Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tossed from a low-flying Cessna. In Parana, where land prices are particularly high, the Guarani tribe has fallen from 5,000 members to 300 in the past ten years. There, the government says, farmers and Indian Service workers often sold Indians as slaves and tortured them for the sheer pleasure of it. The harassment and murder has become so widespread, in fact, that it is hard to find elders among today's few remaining tribes. The Indians just are not given time to grow...
...Crimson freshmen are a tough and scrappy little crew. Their sheer aggressiveness broke Princeton last week, and more of the same may work against Penn Saturday...
...second theoretical defect in the present system is that a person who does do the reading diligently throughout the year usually ends up not paritcipating in any outside activities--for sheer lack of time if for nothing else. People who point with pride to Harvard's flourishing extra-curricular life may fail to realize that it exists only because most people do not do the reading till the end of the year...
Soloists played an important role in the evening, and especially in the group of folk songs and spirituals that closed the second third of the concert. James Jones, baritone, once again stood out for the sheer professionalism of his performance. There was, however, a certain unaccustomed tightness in his production which did not, in the end, mar the overall effect. Also featured were Allan Haley, tenor, Donald Meaders, baritone. Martin Kessler, baritone, an excellent sextet in Webbe's "Glorious Appollo," and Phil Kelsey doing several prodigious "swoops" in the Poulenc...
Jeff Davies is perhaps too vehement as King Gama. But then he is almost alone among the actors in that he is constantly acting, rather than relying on the sheer force of the production to bear him along. Well-matched, his intensity could produce those volleys of humor which mark the best of G&S. Last night he seemed to frighten the rest of the cast...