Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional Boston-Washington axis in this year's presidential campaign consequently doesn't appear to be ruffling too many feathers at Harvard. What does concern many of Carter's hundreds of newfound advisors, however, is that their massive output may not receive adequate attention, by dint of its sheer bulk...
...traditional Boston-Washington axis in this year's presidential campaign consequently doesn't appear to be ruffling too many feathers at Harvard. What does concern many of Carter's hundreds of newfound advisors, however, is that their massive output may not receive adequate attention, by dint of its sheer bulk...
...them "off the books," usually in greenbacks taken from the petty-cash drawer. The employer gets the advantage of cheap labor; the workers draw both clandestine wages and jobless benefits. Harold Kasper, who directs New York State's unemployment insurance program, ran into one such case by sheer accident: while munching a corned beef on rye at an Albany delicatessen, he overheard a waitress complaining to a friend that another waitress was being paid off the books. Such freakish breaks aside, says Kasper, the fraud is extremely hard to combat: "The guy who pays someone off the books...
...singing of Flagstad and Melchior should earn the album an honored place in any record collection. Sheer voice was their badge; yet what made them extraordinary was the uncanny way they could suggest a passion that was at once human and mythical. In particular, Flagstad's ability to float her tenderer notes was almost supernatural-and hard to forget...
...brilliant Dr. Skreta, head of the spa, a slightly mad scientist who practices personal eugenics by inseminating unwitting patients with his own sperm. A rich American expatriot named Bartleff dispenses fistfuls of U.S. half dollars while preaching a Christianity of joy in which saintly asceticism is practiced out of sheer lust for adulation. Kundera also introduces a character named Jakub, a former political prisoner who believes that the only true freedom in his country is the freedom to commit suicide. To remind himself of this pathetic option, he keeps a poisoned pill with him at all times...