Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primaries have begun to blur somewhat, like cities watched from a headlong cross-country train. But if the grueling and expensive system has any merit, it is that it at least determines which candidates travel well. Last week, as the sheer surprise of George McGovern's early primary successes was wearing off, the central questions of his candidacy emerged more clearly: Can he command a winning national constituency once his stands on the issues become widely known and debated? Can his coalition of the discontented widen its embrace sufficiently to win him a nomination? An election...
News-Oriented. Sometimes Miller acts upon sheer impulse. In 1969 he received a routine letter-having nothing to do with purchasing properties-from Louis Weil, president of Federated Publications. After glancing at the names of Federated's seven papers on the letterhead, Miller promptly phoned Weil. "Look," he said, "I see that you're not in any states where we are, and we're not in any states where you are. Why not talk about a possible merger?" Only four months later, Gannett agreed to buy out Federated. Miller shuns the biggest cities, where purchase costs...
...culture is plentiful and the gossip spicy. Yet Friedrich is never far away from the presentiment of the horror to come. What turns out to be most significant about the era is not its spectacular vulgarity and lust, or the brilliance of its art, but its sheer inattention to what was really happening-the long struggle between Communists, Socialists and Nazis. The popular stance in politics was a traditionally stolid German "Ohne mich"-"Include me out." Friedrich describes a night when, despite fighting in the streets, U.F.A., Germany's giant movie company, went ahead with its press preview...
...sheer pretension of the man! The bravado of his lyric, the daring of his melodies. Porter's talent knew no bounds, his wit knew no shame. He was an egregious anachronism. No, not that either, for it is hard to think of any time when he might have been completely at home, totally at ease. This man who made Scott Fitzgerald look like Jonathan Edwards lived in an age and a world unto himself...
...sheer dramatics as well as theatrics, Brecht is the great modern master of distancing, the inventor of the so-called "alienation effect," which seeks to keep the auditor from mere emotional involvement, which rationalizes the theater in order to teach rational lessons. He sets his plays in a real but simpler world. The setting here is Mukden, the revolutionary leaders come from Moscow; yet the focus is not on these real-world places but on the wider-reaching lessons involved...