Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than other reformers, Luther towers over his century by the sheer force of his personality, Churchillian in its scope and complexity. Yale's Roland Bainton, whose Here I Stand is one of the best modern biographies of the reformer, says that "Luther is not an individual. He is a phenomenon." Dr. Jerald Brauer, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, calls Luther "one of the three or four greatest figures in the history of Christianity, perhaps the greatest prophetic figure in post-Apostolic Western Christendom...
...Sheer Monkery. Much to his parents' dismay, Luther kept the vow, two weeks later entered the Augustinian priory at Erfurt. Luther was a pious cleric. "I kept the rule so strictly," he recalled years later, "that I may say that if ever a monk got to Heaven by his sheer monkery it was I. If I had kept on any longer, I should have killed myself with vigils, prayers, reading and other work...
...conviction that the North can be battered into some kind of submission--as the President apparently believes--is sheer folly. The Soviet Union and a strife-torn Communist China will not permit even the appearance of this to occur. And if Johnson were fortunate enough to force the North Vietnamese to cut drastically their aid to the NLF, there is no reason to believe that the Viet Cong insurrection could be quelled to the point where a civilian regime could effectively govern the South...
...FIRST TYPE -- This group includes those who denounce the Cultural Revolution as a sheer power struggle within the power structure. Many Japanese who went to China to investigate the situation during the turmoil belong to this type. They argue that a) the Cultural Revolution is merely a power struggle, b) the chief characteristic of Maoism is an agriculturally centered radicalism of the petty Bourgeoisie, c) the current Chinese concept of "commun" will mean a "commune-guarded-by-the-bayonette" because of the deification of Mao, and d) by labeling dissenters as enemies, Maoism soon will be equatable with Stalinism...
...between 30 and 50. "The vieille petite fille-the old little girl-looks ridiculous." Thus Valentino hemlines rise no more than one inch above the knee, and necklines are high. Yet the Valentino look is anything but matronly: bright, gay colors and trim, geometric lines characterize his designs; sheer luxury is one of their chief appeals. It is the kind of luxury that means fabrics costing as much as $140 per yard, three-faced wools, the most expensive silks for buttonholes, and mink used as pure adornment. Valentino's prices are commensurate. They begin at $750 for a dress...