Word: sheerly
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...reading period provides a more important opportunity than catching up on reading. The sheer amount of content and conceptual knowledge students are asked to synthesize in a semester is staggering. Reading period provides a chance for students to look back over the term, compile the vast body of knowledge they have been presented with and reach a new plateau of understanding...
...sheer coincidence that among TIME's 20 most influential leaders and revolutionaries of this century, six are Americans and half are English speakers? Should we believe that English-speaking countries naturally produce more influential leaders than, say, French- or Spanish-speaking nations? Did cultural bias influence your selection? REHA KESKINTEPE Geneva...
...exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much sense anymore of the sheer weirdness of that fact. We are harder to shock or impress. It has been years since the woman called Madonna simulated masturbation on stage with a crucifix...
Those students who have been skipping lectures for the past three months out of sheer resentment would be wise to attend classes this week. As instructors hand out feedback forms for the Committee on Undergraduate Education Course Evaluation Guide, students finally have their chance to rant or rave on paper about everything that has been making their academic lives into heaven or hell and inform their peers appropriately...
Cuthbert's Dr. Rae Duprey rivals Chase for sheer determination. In The Silent Cradle a killer is targeting unborn babies en route to Duprey's San Francisco hospital, sending expectant mothers into trauma and the good doctor into overdrive. It's a promising start, but then Freud fouls the action--on page six, no less. Turns out that Duprey's mother died in an ambulance while giving birth to a stillborn baby, leaving behind our neurotic protagonist, whose mantra is "Save the life! Save the life...