Word: sheerly
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Equally destabilizing has been the almost inconceivably rapid democratization of information -- the electronic saturation of the world. Once, the leader was the one who knew things and therefore understood what the followers did not: knowledge was power, and following was an act of faith. Now sheer, unexpurgated information accelerates history. It is also hell on mystique. The media help create leaders and then eat them alive -- a sort of electronic Aztec sacrifice...
...physical pain is nothing compared to the sheer disappointment that the Harvard hockey team felt after being clubbed, 6-1, by B.U. Yesterday was something that not even Coach Ronn Tomassoni--always an optimist--could put a positive spin...
...sheer bulk of the harvest rolling into the towering prairie elevators and barges along the great rivers is not the entire story. The yield per acre of land has been phenomenal. Early government estimates were for 33.5 bushels per acre of soybeans. That went up to 40.5 bushels per acre before the harvest began. "That is the distinguishing feature," claims economist Collins. "I've never seen an estimate move so far above the trend line. Statistically, it is one chance in a hundred." The average for corn leaped from 127 bushels to 134 bushels per acre...
...beyond the sheer hypocrisy of professing sensitivity from one end of the mouth while attacking ethnic minorities out the other, there lies the issue of discourse. It seems that Ho and Perspective cannot bring themselves to argue with Lat on substantive points, rather, they must insult him on the basis of his ethnicity. This is a cheep shot, even from an editor of Perspective. G. Brent McGuire '95 for the Peninsula Council
Some of this seems to be sheer perversity, but the real shock of Sellars' production is how well it works both theatrically and thematically. The racial casting, for instance, is a brilliant way of defusing the play's anti-Semitism -- turning it into a metaphor for prejudice and materialism in all its forms. Paul Butler plays Shylock with basso-profundo self-assurance; he's a hardhearted ghetto businessman who, even when he is humiliated at the end, never loses his cool or stoops for pity...