Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Progress Under the New Course are considered useful for filling the files at home." In Paris, an embassy labor attache, leaving after four years, remarked ruefully that he doubted if anyone anywhere had really read one of his reports. The result is that communications break down under sheer volume. "We think the Americans here are in touch with reality and are accurately reporting our attitudes," says an African leader. "But somehow we have a feeling that the message is not being delivered...
...Debate. While there is plenty of reason to be proud of the accomplishment, no one is satisfied. Neither the new generation nor the parents, nor the academicians for that matter, can quite grasp the totality of the revolution in U.S. education. The sheer numbers alone stun them. The task of deciding what a good education should be, and what ought to be taught, and when and to whom it ought to be taught-to say nothing of how education should be financed-poses tremendous problems and precipitates endless debate...
...college campuses in the North-about $43,000 to date. Advertising income amounts to an inconsequential $100 a week. The youthful twelve-man staff (down from a summer peak of 18, now that students have returned to college) works for $20-a-week salaries and the sheer exhilaration of it. "Coming down here was about fifty-fifty," says Managing Editor Michael Lottman, 23, on leave from the Chicago Daily News; "half for a good journalistic opportunity, half to do something for civil rights...
...that "boys and girls have suddenly found that progressive jazz, folk singing and rock 'n' roll aren't enough. The blood and thunder of Salome and Elektra attract them; they like the wild rhythms of Rigoletto and Trovatore. And they are often impressed by skill and sheer stamina: 'Man-did you hear that high B-flat knocked...
...whites in the Deep South can afford perspective. Carter can because he has otherwise impeccable credentials. His sheer elegance protects him from his segregationist neighbors, even endears him to them. To be on the wrong side of "the Negro question" is contemptible (at the very least) in his state, but Carter measures up so well by all the other yardsticks of Southern quality--family, manners, appearance, and so on--that he is almost above reproach. If anyone attacked him for his one aberration, it would sound like sour grapes; remember, at that party, he was best in the show...