Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are now and have been for several years three overwhelmingly strong influences in black Rock and Roll. Foremost, of course, is Motown. For breadth of talent, monetary and technical resources, cross-cultural impact and sheer volume of sales, Berry Gordy's corporation is IT. In second place and trying harder is Atlantic, the parent company of the Stax-Volt labels. And all by himself, James Brown, the Culture-Hero Who Walks Like A Man, occupies a discrete, if not always discreet, position that for our purposes can be labeled number three...
...guilt in our time"--are the expected, overprotective Jewish mother and her long-suffering, constipated husband (whose constipation seems to rival Luther's in cosmic significance.) Togther they praise and badger Portnoy until he finds himself in a paradoxical position: his family considers him among "princes . . . and saviours and sheer perfection on the one hand, and such bumbling incompetent, thoughtless, helpless, selfish, evil little shits, little ingrates, on the other!" Having made a career out of adolescent masturbation (because it "was all I really had that I could call my own"), graduating to complicated sexual perversions in maturity, Portnoy himself...
...sheer gall, few takeover artists have rivaled Saul P. Steinberg, 29, chairman of 71-year-old Leasco Data Processing. Last year his Manhattan computer-leasing firm gained control of Reliance Insurance, a large multi-line company, and squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised...
...Russian literature, Pushkin behaved more like a rakehell uncle. A tiny (5 ft. 3 in.), edgy man with fingernails as long as claws and half-simian features, Pushkin pursued all the known excesses with prodigious energy. Though he was ugly, he exerted a vast sexual attraction through his sheer intensity. A fellow student recalled that at the touch of a dancing partner's hand at a ball, Pushkin's "eyes blazed, he panted and snorted, like an ardent horse in the midst of a herd of young mares...
Palestinian Power. Negotiations are likely to be painfully slow, not only because of the vast gulf between the Arab and Israeli positions but also because of the sheer number of participants: the U.S., Russia, Britain, France, Israel, Egypt and Jordan, plus the U.N.'s Jarring. Yet the diplomats already face a stiff penalty for delay in the fast-rising political power of the one interest group that will not be represented, the Palestinian fedayeen commandos. In any settlement, the Israelis will insist that Arab governments curb fedayeen within their own borders, something that they are increasingly unable...