Word: sheerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Director-Scenarist Krzysztof Zanussi renews his well-worn theme-the search for direction and identity-through a superbly tempered style and sheer force of feeling. His hero (Stanislaw Latallo) is a student of science who is baffled and intimidated by the intricacies of the natural order, stalled by doubt and fear of the mysteries that not only surround him but drive...
True Grit. Los Angeles Psychiatrist William Kroger credits Erickson with being one of the first to develop behavioral therapy, which tries to alter behavior patterns without dealing with the unconscious mind. But in addition to his hypnotic techniques, Erickson seems to affect patients through sheer force of personality. He is a man of true grit, who pulled himself through two attacks of polio (after the second, he hiked on canes in Arizona's Kofa Mountains...
RICHARD SENNETT and Jonathan Cobb probe more directly into the disguised mechanisms by which workers reconcile themselves to their status. They delve into societal dictates on people's modes of thought, which are often far more effective and less brutally obvious ways of keeping people in their place than sheer economic power. The long-term interviews Sennett and Cobb conducted in ethnic neighborhoods in Boston and with Bostonians who had moved to the suburbs showed most people had both a complacent and a wounded side that in some ways are comparable to the two styles of life which Howell describes...
...SHAKESPEAREAN. In Henry IV, Prince Hal declares: "If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work." The sheer number of baseball and basketball contests tends to satiate all but the most avid fans...
Tired, sobered down, almost choking over his "on-the-one-hand, on-the-other" game plan, Grass still has more endurance, wit, sheer cantankerousness than a pair of polarized extremists half his age. "What's progress?" he asks stubbornly (and who else would have the courage and humor to use that old-fashioned word in the age of apocalypse...