Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connoisseurs of piano music would place Pianist Horowitz with the top-rank interpretive artists such as Artur Schnabel, Artur Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
...popularly supposed that people go right on reading the thrillers of James M. Cain (The Postman Always Rings Twice, Serenade) through five-alarm fires and the sudden inheritance of large blocks of stock. This is very nearly true. Cain's appeal is partly sheer narrative skill-and partly the fact that he is one of the world's most vivid tellers of dingy stories...
Fighter pilots are said to be either old or bold, never both. In the Aleutians they are mostly bold. Often on their way home from missions they dogfight each other out of sheer exuberance. The officers don't try to stop them, agree they need the outlet...
Apparatus events are the backbone of gymnastics. But far more exciting to galleries are the tumbling events. For the sheer fun of it, contestants perform the same stunts that once kept Japanese tumblers in big-time vaudeville. The tumbler who brought down the house last week was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, dimpled, curly-headed Bonnie Nebelong. Into her minute-and-a-half performance, she packed so many spine-tingling contortions and body twists that the judges had eyes for no one else...
...most influential newspapers in the world, certainly one of the ten best in the U.S., the Monitor, with 144,000 subscribers, is way down the list in circulation. Staid, clean, published by intelli gent people for intelligent people, it is not popular; it accents information, shuns sheer entertainment...