Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often said that the new immoralists merely seek to show the world as they see it, in all its horror and lovelessness; but that is simply the old error of confusing art with event, a propagation of the notion that a novel trying to convey dullness must be dull. Sheer nightmare does not redeem a book any more than sheer polly-annaism. The Genet-Burroughs crowd, including such lesser sensationalists as John Rechy (City of Night) and Hubert Selby (Last Exit to Brooklyn), are not pornographers, if pornography is defined as arousing sexual excitement. These writers have created a pornography...
...more than the notes of good intention," he wrote six years ago, in Advertisements. Every scene is almost over the edge, compressed with the tension of a man who may slip from his foothold on his own sweat; so is Mailer's prose--sometimes straight narrative riding on the sheer power of events, but sometimes inflated, rhetorical, once or twice embarrassing...
...idea of Jesus as a sexual being, sheer blasphemy to most Christians, has a certain fascination for some modern writers. In The Man Who Died, D. H. Lawrence interpreted the Resurrection as Christ's awakening to sensual love; Nikos Kazantzakis described The Last Temptation of Christ as his struggle to overcome sexual desire. Heretical as such writings may sound, says Tom F. Driver, an associate professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Jesus' sexuality should not be dismissed by Christians as unthinkable...
...sheer digging the Review has managed to beat its big-time competitors on stories ranging from the deficiencies of the new $9,000,000 Metropolitan Hall of Justice, which was too small before it was built, to its latest exclusive that the Internal Revenue Service has no record of receiving income-tax returns from Utah's Democratic Attor ney General Phil Hansen for either 1962 or 1963, an exclusive that the Deseret News later headlined with...
...synthetic mannequins-in show windows, they are likely to stop traffic, start riots, and end up as exhibits in night court. Even those with a bit more substance to them, like Bien Jolie's flowered-net version ($11) and Warner's "The Body" ($12.50), are sheer enough to read through, small print included. As for girdles, most, like Gossard's Lycra net ($4) and Formfit's hip-rider ($4), offer low-down control in only a seam or two: the rest is up to the customer...