Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riled at the New Frontier's domestic program: "No one can stand, simultaneously, for more individualism and more centralized Government. The proposals now flowing in such abundance to the Congress can lead to nothing but greater centralization. We Republicans take our stand for the individual . . . We consider it sheer arrogance to believe that people in Government know better for the people than they know for themselves . . . We are against the insulting concept of Government by Big Brother. Excessive public housing, rampant public power, federalized youth programs are cases in point...
...sheer unadorned, twisted, dirty reporting, this article deserves a high place in the roster of dishonorable journalism. You have corrupted every statistic you use, finding evil in the titanic effort made by the people of New York to create a better city...
...past that makes both Seferis and Cavafy poets of defeat. But as demonstrated in these two excellent collections the two poets have widely differing attitudes toward this defeat. It is, essentially, the fate of man in history, but to the dry, witty, elegant and overcivilized Cavafy, history is sheer irony; the Golden Age never was, except as a crude, sensational and vulgar replica of modern times and all times. To Seferis, on the other hand, history is a parable of man's oft deluded but intrinsically noble search for his own soul. Seferis recognizes human frailty...
...best work than simply the brilliant grader--in a word, the Harvard undergraduate." One would not have anticipated, however, the ugly name the Journal slaps on this new beast: "the intelligent specialist non-specialist." Small wonder that these beings have lapsed into scholarspeak--no doubt out of sheer ontological terror...
EXETER: The first ten minutes of Make Mire Mink are sickeningly dismal, as only British farce can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining 80 minutes, happy to tell, are sheer joy. Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding-house occupants on a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds, naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...