Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...side show of an amusement park. "A group of people filed out of the concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with an empty mouth, bubbles of saliva at the corner of his lips." But aside from the sheer lustiness of his description, Lewis is tremendously skillful in combining two parallel plots, one in the past and one in the present, without succumbing to the banality that is usually found in the use of flashbacks...
...sheer weight of words and incidents and research were the only criteria, "Raintree Country" would be the Great American Novel that Mr. Lockridge so obviously intends it to be. Or if complexity of structure and multiplicity of symbolism were the means of indexing and ranking novels, it would stand close to the top. But something else, unfortunately, is needed...
...compare a Lowell House converted single with an Eliot House converted double and conclude that Lowell dwellers are more comfortable is sheer folly. The very size of Lowell single rooms makes them inferior to even the smallest double; yet, because of the poor rent policy, the men in minute singles are paying rents comparable to others in more spacious doubles and triples...
Everything thereafter is sheer anticlimax, as a limp audience is held spell-bound in its seats, asphyxiated by what is without a doubt the worst in a long and dubious series of "Road" vehicles...
Mississippi-born Playwright Williams, 33, perhaps the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...