Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goulart's most explosive moves to date was to decree an "agrarian reform" program to take over idle farmland along federal highways, railroads and reservoirs. The decree was sheer demagoguery, since the government has long had legal power to take over these lands, but has always lacked the cash to compensate the owners. To the peasants, Tango's loudly touted decree is simply a hunting license to grab the land. The government-sponsored, Communist-bossed National Peasant Confederation has even assured Brazil's peasants that the land decree "is an instrument that the peasants...
...overall direction has been ever closer to Red China. In one of his latest visits to Peking, the Prince was feted at every turn and was greatly impressed by the sheer mass of humanity he saw. "They never end," he said. "The people never...
That, of course, forms the plot of Funny Girl, how sheer grit is polished into great talent and the price that is paid for that pearl of success. This familiar story failed in Sophie (about Sophie Tucker) and Jennie (about Laurette Taylor), but it is surprisingly successful in Funny Girl. The difference is partly that Barbra Streisand's Fanny Brice is driven by the heat of desire rather than the cold of ambition, has spasms of panic as well as mountains of spunk. The usual standbys are unusually appealing. Kay Medford's stage mother is more loving than...
...foreign aid is sometimes sheer preannounced bribery to those whom you think you would otherwise fail to befriend. All those heavy loads of dollars are one thing, and the way you give them away is another...
Cheever was an obviously gifted child. His mother took him to Ibsen plays in Boston, and he got nosebleeds out of sheer excitement. He was chubby then and no athlete, but he early discovered his talent for storytelling, and used to gather a crowd of his contemporaries around him on the family veranda on a summer afternoon while he held forth. In his early teens, he sneaked off to Boston, where he hung around that citadel of burlesque, the Old Howard, cadging an occasional pat from the strippers. Cheever's academic career, in which he never took much interest...