Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week's 14-12 loss to Boston College, the ends proved Lamar to be a pretty good prophet, as they caught 10 of the 15 passes that Richard Zimmerman lofted into the air. And some of these snags were sheer acrobatics...
Phrases such as "Peace in our time" and "Prosperity is just around the corner" invoke "word magic," as linguists call verbal formulas that promise to make dreams come true through sheer repetition. On the other hand, observes San Francisco State College's S. I. Hayakawa, a pioneering U.S. semanticist. "You don't move a mass society with a volume by Galbraith." Particularly in the U.S., as Cambridge Historian Denis Brogan has pointed out, "the evocative power of verbal symbols must not be despised, for these are and have been one of the chief means of uniting the United...
...wilderness of Dutch New Guinea and returned with the remarkable documentary, The Sky Above-The Mud Below. His new film attempts to explore New York City in much the same way. "Never has there been a city in the world like this," glows Gaisseau, as his camera ogles the sheer canyons of lower Manhattan. "It occurs to me that people who expect a bomb to fall don't build their walls of glass. A city of glass is like a declaration of peace...
What Americans have now, presumably, is a repressive society, which, to Goodman, is no good at all. The present economic organization sets political traps, yes; but beyond this and more important, sheer size creates pervasive, damaging psychological exploitation. In Goodman's view, the contemporary American is forced to make a bad trade--he gives up community, good sex and decent communication for money and status in the "Organized System." In short, Goodman argues that our times have become effectively totalitarian even though our political system...
...HUSBANDS: "Let him educate you. The whole duty of a wife is to bolster her husband's selfesteem; not his vanity but his pride. A man's ego bruises easily. It is not nourished like a woman's by the sheer biological ability to bear children...