Word: sheer
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...measure. Born in Belfast and baptized into Anglicanism's Church of Ireland, Lewis tossed off the remnants of his childhood faith at prep school, professed no belief at all through World War I and Oxford. No sudden illumination brought him back to the church; it was, he claimed, sheer logic that drove him step by step from atheism to taking Anglican communion again in 1930. "I'm not in the least the religious type," he wrote after his conversion. "I want to be let alone to feel I'm my own master; but since the facts seemed...
...thing impressive about Nobody Loves an Albatross is Preston's acting. The audience knows he's unscrupulous, but loves him anyway. Surrounded by stock characters--a saucy maid, a smart little daughter, a nervous young writer, and a stacked secretary--he keeps Act I from collapsing altogether by the sheer force of his personality. The act is little more than a prolonged series of semi-funny jokes; for example: "Go play with your dolls like I told you--sticking the long pins into Mr. Whitman." Multiply this by 500 and you get an idea of what Preston salvaged...
...eager to trade with the Reds, are scarcely even willing to rule out strategic items that NATO specifically forbids. Western European exports to the Soviet bloc last year climbed by 10% to $2.2 billion (compared with U.S. sales of $125 million). What Washington worries about is not the sheer volume of such deals but the terms...
Gallery openings in Manhattan are beginning to rival the opera in silken elegance and the subway for sheer squeeze. Last week's opening of the new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery looked as if it was getting in the last word, if not the entire madding crowd in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In chilly evening winds, great red and green banners flapped from flagpoles outside the gallery's sixth floor facade above 57th Street. Nothing could dissuade the 2,50 art lovers, beehives and beatle-cuts alike, from donning black tie and white brocade theater coats to come...
...There is no reason why we should not talk of this. One of the things I like about America is the crazy contradictoriness of American life. It is sheer delight for me to think of all those superpatriots in Texas and California, who would find Senator Javits anathema-andnot only because he is a liberal-whooping it up for dear old Barry. And it is a sheer delight to think of the paradox of Catholics deciding that Kennedy is too radical for them, and rooting for Goldwater, while Jews will be unmoved by Goldwater's Jewish ties and will...