Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHETHER In These Times can succeed as the political voice of a new movement is impossible to predict. The sheer magnitude of the undertaking provokes a fair amount of skepticism. Eugene McCarthy, while not a socialist, made an appeal to the same theoretical constituency as In These Times, and he failed...
...that aside, it is actually difficult not to admire the sheer brilliance of the network's commercial calculation, its bold strategies in positioning and promoting its products as it scrambles for an edge in its battles with...
Empires rise and fall. Tribes, nations, peoples flourish and vanish. Customs and cultures evolve. Why? Is it God's will? Sheer chance? The power of greed? The pattern of history? All of the above is probably the safest answer. But even taking that much into account, argues University of Chicago Professor William McNeill, historians miss one of the prime catalysts in human history: infectious disease...
Such pessimism would lose its shock value through sheer repitition were it not for the relief afforded by glittering and--to Western readers--unusual cantos like "The King in the Air," a poem somewhat closer to the vivid but unemotional imagery of the neo-classical tradition...
...woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about the divided allegiances that plague him. He also collects locks of Sally's hair. In short, Jerry strikes the reader as a twerp of twerps. At their trysts the two revert to sheer teen-agery, '50s style. They find themselves ravished by love lyrics that come over the radio. They exchange mysterious, monosyllabic endearments. "Hey." "Hi." Jerry gives up smoking. Updike reports: "He wanted his kisses to taste clean." Cupid's darts have all but done them...