Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some Germans dismiss the Communist youth movement, perhaps too lightly, as "middle class." Says one Social Democrat: "They talk revolution and spend their vacations in Spain and Greece, rather than their beloved East Germany. It is all sheer nonsense." But the radicals' demands are serious enough: the ouster of U.S. forces and a drastic reduction of West Germany's defense budget. Beyond these goals, the left seems to be aiming for an eventual reunification of the two Germanys in which socialism would be triumphant...
RIDING HIGH on the reckless waves of sheer spontaneity, the Beat Generation couldn't arrest its own self-destruction. But before their movement became the subject matter for ambitious "new journalists," the Beat Poets had already shaken the literary establishment by rejecting an academic formalism rooted in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. They replaced this sterile stuff with a free-wheeling experiential American poetic idiom inspired by the more cautious William Carlos Williams. Allen Ginsberg's "Howl," with its Whitmanesque catalogues of the poet's own undeniably hellish experience, became a banner around which the new American poets rallied...
...finest compliment one can pay the off-Broadway Roundabout Theater revival is that it brings out all the Joycean echoes in Ibsen. When it falters, it is simply that few actors are intrepid enough to scale the sheer rock face of Ibsen's perdurable realities. ∙T.E.K...
MAYBE IT'S SOMETHING to do with films that get themselves known as legends, but L'Amour Fou and Last Tango in Paris are stunningly parallel, not least because both explore the definitions of love and sheer aggression in sexuality...
...subject to a fault. Absence of mind may be appealing enough in the intoxicated flesh. But mindless prose about mindless protagonists, mindlessly cavorting in and out of bed from Cambridge to California, on this, that and and the other variant of a chemical lobotomy is next-of-kin to sheer trash...