Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third period the Blue's Don Lewis took a slapshot from the point that was deflected en route to the net, and Yale moved out to a 2-0 lead, to the sheer delight of the large Eli contingent of students and alumni. Petrovek had no chance on the goal. By now all realized that the impossible just might happen-a Yale...
...player must have a flawless ability to shape the form, then a knack for making embellishments sound both natural and exciting. Kipnis has both these talents in abundance. Indeed, it is doubtful whether any harpsichordist now performing can match his particular combination of formal restraint, interpretive flair and sheer energy. Certainly that was the case last week as Kipnis made a successful New York Philharmonic debut playing two diverse works under Conductor Pierre Boulez-Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Falla's Harpsichord Concerto...
...want you to have. I don't make deals, I don't party and drink with sources, and I don't play a game of leaks. I read, I listen, I squirrel information. It's fun." One government official describes his technique as one of sheer persistence: "He wheedles, cajoles, pleads, threatens, asks a leading question, uses little tidbits as if he knew the whole story. When he finishes you feel like...
...bread-and-butter illustrations. His mother died mad, which seems to have inhibited Turner from trusting women; for sex he went to dockside whores, and for security and approval he turned to an institution, the Royal Academy. Nearly all his emotional energies were displaced into his work. Its sheer volume was astounding: the British Museum alone has 19,000 watercolors, color notes and travel drawings. Turner's creativity, which rivaled Picasso's, meant ceaseless travel in search of motifs-over the Alps, around Italy, across France, throughout England. But the work remained in England. Thus the Royal Academy...
...Grimm tales first printed in the U.S. in 1944 is full of wonders and murders, long-suffering younger sons who make it and bad giants who don't. It is a great buy in drops of blood, talking foxes, poisoned apples, unparalleled cruelty, earthy wisdom, dumbfounding stupidity and sheer excitement. Every literate household (with or without children) should...