Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towels to their noses. That spark set off a Spring of agitation and activist preoccupations that left many a subtler or less relevant issue to a later day. And those of us who, faithful to the whole series of Trilling's lectures, had found them as frustrating by their sheer velocity and density as they were arousing, looked forward to the chance to ponder them eventually in more manageable book form...
...Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Charlies's Place on Massachusetts Avenue. The lifestyle and ambitions of this band represent a significant contrast to that of the three-piece suit, Ivy League stereotype, for they are serious artists with a remarkable degree of talent for songwriting as well as sheer musicianship...
...there is another crucial aspect to this oeuvre, which obtains even when the two volumes are left unread. It is impossible to read Proust now without a thorough deliberation beforehand on what this novel represents. In our post-historical epoch, when the world threatens to become indecipherable, when the sheer velocity of time speeds up to such an extent that entire landscapes disappear in a season, and when jet travel no longer seems a violation of natural law, these two thousand pages require a virtual suspension of existence in order to be read. Kafka's observation that it should take...
Beethoven, The Five Cello and Piano Sonatas (Cellist Pierre Fournier, Pianist Artur Schnabel; Seraphim, 2 LPs, $5.96). Whether darkly probing his psyche or demonstrating sheer joy, Beethoven was a composer who believed that music should be dramatic and expressive. So, fortunately, do Fournier and Schnabel, in this historic collaboration dating from 1948, now issued in its entirety for the first time on an American LP. It is hereby recommended as an antidote for today's "cool" and bloodless school of Beethoven interpretation...
...consumption is about 10% higher than for comparably sized cars; the Mazda drinks a quart of oil every 1,500 miles. Still, the car has a lot of selling points, including a fast pickup that carries it from 0 m.p.h. to 60 m.p.h. in about 9½ seconds, and sheer technological novelty. The latter is tied to a two-year-long fuse, but Brown insists that Mazda, which has been building rotary engines for five years, will stay ahead of Detroit. His chiefs at Toyo Kogyo apparently agree. They have increased production at their Hiroshima plant from a monthly average...