Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...curiously inverted or disguised condescension. It assumes that the peasant has no tolerance, no appreciation of differences, no standards of hospitality. It assumes that the villager would demand complete conformity to his own mores before he would accept the Peace Corps member as an individual. Both these assumptions are sheer nonsense. The peasant may be illerate, but he is not stupid, and he is as keenly aware as any anthropologist of the social divisions in his own world. He will expect the American teacher to live as a teacher, not as a peasant. The proper and desirable course of action...
Anxious Panting. That something is the ancient ambiance of Oxbridge-the sheer delight of living and jousting with England's finest minds. And redbrick students rarely match those at Oxbridge...
...production-four seasons old but still one of the handsomest spectacles the Met has to offer-was bolstered by a generally strong cast. But Soprano Price was the undisputed star. Throughout the long evening she demonstrated again her remarkable ability to compel an audience to belief through sheer beauty of tone; from the rage of Act I's Or sal chi I'onore to the tenderness of the second act's Non mi dir, she moved securely and with absolute conviction. Her two great arias stopped the opera cold in two of the most spontaneous ovations...
...slippery white hills to the North invite a weekend escape from Cambridge. For a veteran skibum: memories of smell, of triply brilliant sun, of hills of sheer hair, of uncontrolled speed, clouded goggles, broken straps, sore ankles...
...During the final duet (the part he never completed), the composer intended Calaf and Turandot "to descend through love to the level of mankind." They would at times echo Liu's touchingly simple music. Her sacrifice would not have been in vain. But, at the same time, through the sheer excitement of this last duet, the audience would not regret this sacrifice, but instead would realize that the grand love of Calaf and Turandot required Liu's death. Her demise was not pathetic but necessary. As it stands now, Alfano's cheap music for this scene is just as brazen...