Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decade ago are rapidly turning over their jobs to a group of men in their 30s and 40s, who should be around to oversee new rounds of expansion for years to come. The result is a business climate that is practically unparalleled in the U.S. for solid growth and sheer bullishness...
Whatever the future, the young, by their sheer numbers and in the galvanic example of the McGovern campaign, have profoundly altered the chemistry of American politics. Committed, surprisingly professional and potentially volatile, they are a huge, insistent presence in the Democratic Party, as irritating in the political family as a suddenly matured prodigy who has aggressive manners and uncomfortable ideas. To beat Nixon, the Democratic nominee must somehow bring the family intact through the battle of Miami Beach or, if that proves impossible, put it back together again before the real war is joined on Labor...
...sheer cost of existence is staggering. The best hotels are exorbitantly expensive; the less desirable hotels provide few services for a slightly smaller nightly rate. Everywhere there are gimmicks and sometimes blanket policies affect the hotels. For instance, some penalize guests who are discovered with liquor bought outside the hotel in their rooms. The difference in price between liquor outside and inside the hotel proper usually runs about 100 per cent...
AMERICAN political conventions are perhaps democracy's most spectacular sacrament. H.L. Mencken found them "as fascinating as a revival or hanging," and they are often a little of both. As sheer theater, they are a special American form, a television marathon, a grandiose town meeting staged by DeMille. Yet for all their exuberant buncombe, their stretches of interminable tedium and their gusts of rhetoric, the conventions have the seriousness and the fascination of great political power in transfer...
Even if it were run with the decorum of a D.A.R. meeting, the sheer logistics of bringing it all together are incredibly elaborate. Miami Beach, a normally garish but placid corridor of resorts and retirement (the median age of permanent residents is 65), is looking forward to the twin bill with a booster's pride and a bit of trepidation...