Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are, perhaps forgivably, some dancers who eventually come to view the show about as charitably as a harpsichordist girding for his umpty-umpth Messiah. A child might think it sheer bliss to be able to perform The Waltz of the Snowflakes. Says Vassilie Trunoff, ballet master of the London Festival Ballet: "I call it The Dance of the Cornflakes' because we've got corns on our feet from dancing it so often." There are few major dancers or choreographers whose careers have not crossed that of Herr Drosselmeyer, Marie (or Clara, as she is sometimes known...
...Council's procedures and a reassessment of the Council's purpose. During the recent CRR referendum, not only did certain members act in a less than scrupulous manner, but they also tried to manipulate the opinions of the Freshmen class. Their behavior deviates from political maneuvering to a sheer lack of ethics, for it reverses the role between the Council and the constituency. Freshmen are no longer represented; they are led or misled by activists within the Council...
Hite's counsel stands to reason. Women have been socialized into grids of passivity, and they will not act as whole, autonomous individuals until they have shed those patterns. But the means of translating this awareness into effective action remains unresolved. Hite would have us believe that sheer insight will stimulate women to effect a complete change, to revitalize all their relationships and become more assertive. She tends to limit her commentary to recapitulations of the sufficiently eloquent statements her respondents offer, where she could use their explication of pervasive sexual problems as a springboard to solutions. Such annoying pretension...
...other reason for this recovery lies in Epstein's Petruchio. The sheer power of his voice manages to contain all of the potentially explosive elements in the play. Epstein, who appears to know how every line of his part has ever been read, is as challenging, excited, scheming, pig-headed, ironic, reflective and ultimately loving as he demands his Kate...
...sheer folly to reject the great advantages of civilian nuclear electric power, as the world's other energy resources are diminished." Richard Wilson, professor of physics, told an audience of students and faculty members last night...