Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asbell overlooks the cases in which automation is truly likely to victimize the worker, he neglects also to propose any coherent plan of therapy for the social ills he illustrates. Most of the time he seems to be banking on sheer optimism, Manifest Destiny, and old-fashioned Emersonian self-reliance. He also praises desultory federal organs like the Area Redevelopment Administration, and the miraculous powers of new teaching techniques. Nowhere, however, does he suggest concrete rules or steps for accommodating men to machines with a minimum of social waste. As bell's enthusiasm is like electricty without a power cable...
...Debussy's Nocturnes closed the program. They are excellent Debussy, but the omitted third, "Sirenes," is unparalleled in all of musical literature for sheer sensuality. Perhaps Yannatos had to cut it because of the length of the program; in that case, I wish he had waited until the next concert, and performed all three then...
Other possible scorers for the Terrapins are Ed Hearon, a 55 ft. shot putter; Dick Sheer, a 0:07.4 hurdler; and Ramsey Thomas, who clocked around 1:13 in the 600. Addition points may come from broad-jumper Cole in the dash...
...best-known mountain climbers in the world -the handsome, brooding hero of a dramatic rescue on France's Mont Blanc, the youngest member of the triumphant Himalayan expedition up K2 in 1954, the fellow who in 1955 spent six days and five nights alone clawing his way up sheer rock and ice to become the only man ever to conquer Mont Blanc's Aiguille du Dru singlehanded...
...gave the film immense scale and ponderousness at the expense of pace; it is practically a series of paintings. The conspiring boyars stare malignantly from the shadows, Ivan stands, kneels, and writhes before fearsome religious images, great armies, and burning cities. There is almost no relief from the sheer weight of evil...