Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hurled epithets of "decadent" and "degenerate" at him. He half resented and half cultivated the image, since he shrewdly realized that fiction makes better copy than truth. No newspaper would devote much space to the fact that he worked mercilessly, helped support his mother and collapsed at night from sheer occupational fatigue...
...Coleman's music is amiably melodic and Dorothy Fields' lyrics ingratiatingly intelligent, though the score never soars toward the memorable. Apart from their notable acting strengths, the sheer likability of Michele Lee and Ken Howard is infectious. She is a warm, supple sprig of femininity; he is a tongue-tied Adam trying to invent a word for love. A playgoer ends up half wishing that the pair could swap their teeter-totter affair for the merry-go-round of marriage. · T.E. Kalem
Investment studies have shown that at least three of every four amateur commodity players lose money in the long run. Yet the rewards for the winners-and the sheer excitement of the action-seem to hold a special fascination for younger speculators. "We have a new crew of investors, people not scarred by the Depression," says CBT Trader Mayer. 'They take chances because they want to live...
...test themselves in wartime. Willwerth went to Indochina as a TIME reporter in 1970-71 seeking "a place where I could be truly pulled apart and reassembled. . .a vision around some corner that will make everything fall into place." Naturally, he does not really find that vision. The sheer energy generated in reporting the Cambodian and Laotian invasions is followed by emptiness. As Willwerth tells it he got sick, homesick, bored and only aroused by the death of a photographer friend. Work is what pulls him through...
...arithmetic of Bok's selection process thus offers good cause for worry. Those whose recommendations Bok weighs heavily are likely--by sheer force of numbers--to be mostly unresponsive and bureaucratic-minded conservative senior Faculty whose resistance to student participation in decision-making has always been strongest. Those who thrive on the exercise of their own petty power are more concerned with pushing pliable conservative candidates on the Faculty than with prospects at all responsive to student views. Their own passion for manipulation--of fellow Faculty as well as of students--is apparent from the Faculty Council's treatment...