Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perverse impulses of the human spirit to create sheer ugliness have never, unhappily, been easily checked, and the desecration of landscapes with one sort of architectural horror or another has always been a favorite field for release of these energies. Naturally enough, this skill has reached its apex in Our Modern Age with one wondrous achievement: the housing development...
...Brave One (King Brothers; Universal-International). One wild, dark night on the Mexican altiplanicie, the wind screamed and the rain beat and the lightning felled a great branch on a cow, a mother of fighting bulls. By sheer might of instinct, the valiant beast survived long enough to drop her bull calf and to bellow until help came. It was a small boy (Michel Ray), the son of a Mexican vaquero, who found the hungry black buster where he wailed indignantly in the cold and wet, and carried him back to finish his first night in a warm bed. Gitano...
...wins her on the eve of her marriage. But perhaps because of its very inevitability, Mr. Alonso has refused to write such a scene, and as a result Juan just never comes to life enough to make his story appear the tragedy it is supposed to be. By sheer force of personality, the jilted bridegroom dominates the play, thus damaging both its perspective and meaning...
...matchsticks-and broke his neck. The doctors said he would never move his legs again, and the Navy retired him. But Wead had an invincible will to get well. For the better part of five years he lay helplessly in bed, driving the life "back into his limbs by sheer force of determination, until at last, with the help of two canes, he was able to walk...
...House system, it cannot realize its potential. Ideally, the student's tutor should live in the House, where formal meetings would be regular, but also where informal contact would be frequent. Hopefully, with additional Houses and reduced crowding, the University will be able to approach the ideal, but sheer weight of numbers and dictates of the budget make a return to the system of the early '30's highly unlikely. Increased funds from foundations, and perhaps a reapportionment of some University funds, can undoubtedly strengthen the tutorial program, but it is apparent that the University will be forced to explore...