Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crimson coach Stephanie Walsh said the skin suits, which are lighter and more sheer than suits the women usually wear for meets, give the swimmers a "psychological lift because they feel much lighter...
Carter appeared self-assured and comforting, but could not match Roosevelt for the sheer drama of the situation or the rhetoric of the speech. Many who watched, though, seemed more interested hi the President's unusual costume than in anything else. Said one Wall Street executive: "I don't like a President in a sweater." The conservative Chicago Tribune found the sweater "a little too folksy to be real." Some viewers also chided Carter for saying little new or speaking too soon. But, in sum, the relaxed and reassuring Carter style-and Carter's cardigan-seemed...
Enter the winner, and hero, of Maccoby's book The Gamesman (285 pages; $8.95), published last week by Simon & Schuster. The gamesman loves glory and winning-not for the sake of wealth or power (though he may acquire both) but for the sheer joy of victory. He detests losing. Maccoby, 43, isolated the type after six years of Rorschach tests, dream analysis and interviews with 250 managers (4% of them women) at twelve elite U.S. companies. As Maccoby's interviews, conducted for the Harvard Project on Technology, Work and Character, took him higher into corporate structures, he found...
...sheer number of people who were exposed to Roots is staggering. Across the country, theaters and restaurants lost business as customers stayed home to watch the serialization. Hostesses arranged party plans so that guests could watch installments. Bartenders kept their patrons from leaving only by switching their TV sets from hockey and basketball games to Roots. In all, some 130 million Americans watched at least part of the series. Seven of the eight episodes ranked among the Top Ten in all-time TV ratings (the other three: this year's Super Bowl, Parts 1 and 2 of Gone With...
...that, the book succeeds. What it lacks in depth and style, it makes up in sheer power. The seemingly endless flood of names and numbers, the innumerable tales of heroism and cowardice, the continuous demonstrations of the storm's savagery, all add up to a compelling narrative, a hymn to the brute force of nature. The scenes of hundreds swimming through storm waves in downtown Providence, of thousands fighting back flood waters in New London, Conn., of train crews outracing deadly tidal waves and of desperate sailors straining to keep their 1000-ton vessel from from running aground on inland...