Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in Mozart's birthplace, the Salzburg Festival's main event last week was a different kind of opera. Listeners found few tunes to whistle when they came away from Danton's Death, the new opera by Gottfried von Einem. But few could for get the sheer violence of Einem's orchestral onslaught on dictatorship. What was left unsaid by the orchestra was sung by the chorus, which Einem employed as Mussorgsky did in Boris Godunov, as the real protagonist of the drama. There were few arias, and most of them were drowned in the dissonant...
...basis of Bowerman's selection was the space allotted in the 1936 edition of the Dictionary of American Biography: every biography that rated 1½ pages or more was selected in the first drawing. Then, for reasons good & sufficient to Author Bowerman-such as eminence due to sheer luck; traitors and criminals-some 210 names were given the heave ho (samples: William "Boss" Tweed, Carrie Nation, Daniel Boone, Pocahontas). Enough also-rans (1½ pages in the D.A.B.) were then added to bring the list to an even thousand. The finalists include 973 men (examples: George and Booker...
While Democratic leaders grinned and shook hands in their turn, Republicans glowered. Colorado Senator Eugene D. Millikin, floor manager for the bill, had proclaimed the G.O.P. position during the debate. He had called the President's action a "foolish veto" prompted by "sheer ignorance or sheer demagoguery." Other Presidents, Millikin had said, had "a decent respect for the right of Congress to control fiscal policy...
...rally made a thunderous noise in the ears of Democratic State Chairman Jimmy Roosevelt. It was not a groundswell he heard; it was a political fusillade. For months, by sheer industry and charm, Jimmy had tried to steer the party down the political middle. The party would not steer. A powerful right wing, headed by National Committeeman...
...destroyers rammed the Exodus on both sides; boarding parties armed with truncheons, small arms and tear-gas bombs jumped aboard, rushed the bridge. The refugees fought back by throwing tins of corned beef and potatoes. By sheer weight of numbers, they pushed British sailors into cabins, down corridors, in a struggle that most of the refugees knew was hopeless...