Word: sheer
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Burden of Choice. Americans have never really learned to speak of the "masses." Vast crowds do not give the U.S. the sense of doom that Ortega y Gasset felt when he shuddered about "mass man." Yet, sheer numbers are an overwhelming factor in the individual's existence. Demographers calculate that, given a U.S. population density of ten people per square mile in the mid-19th century, each American inside a ten-mile radius could "interact" with about 3,000 others. But the density in the U.S. today is 60 people per square mile, making possible interaction with nearly...
Professor Reginald R. Isaacs, who spoke on behalf of the faculty, said that Miss McNamara is "a tradition." He added that "45 years of dealing with students and faculty must be regarded as an extraordinary feat of sheer mental and physical endurance...
Eckstein labeled as "sheer speculation" any attempt to guess whether all the large steel companies would now hike their prices. But the fact that the other companies have done nothing yet is a "good sign" that they plan to hold the line, he said...
...light on, Aznavour has discovered that in life I'amour rarely rhymes with toujours, and he tirelessly embroiders this theme in his songs. "What could I have been thinking of? Was it with you I fell in love?" sings a disillusioned Aznavour husband. "I gaze at you in sheer despair and see your mother standing there." Other songs deal with fading Don Juans, wifely nagging, and Who Gets Lolita When Humbert Humbert Dies? "I have no intellectual colleagues," Aznavour says from his artistic pinnacle, "but my rapport is with everyone...
There is another side to the program. To keep from being completely inundated with surplus farm products, the Government, in sheer self-defense, imposes production controls. The principal instrument is the acreage quota: the farmer is assigned a certain number of acres of a given price-supported crop; his quota depends upon how many acres of that crop he has grown in the past. Despite such controls, the surpluses keep piling...