Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...light of these considerations, it is urgent that serious consideration be given to curbing the irresponsible freedom which the undergraduate enjoys in the present state of confusion. What is not needed is any further collapse of undergraduate education into craft guilds in the image of the Faculty. Sheer necessity requires a closely co-ordinated and comprehensive undergraduate program which will ensure that every Harvard graduate understand, with some degree of sophistication, what is going on in the major fields of serious endeavor. Peter A. Fine...
Nowhere in the world compares to Harvard Square for sheer arrogance density. Tens, hundreds, countless young men walk about Cambridge contentedly bearing the secret of their own grandeur. Perhaps their judgment is accurate, perhaps a vast ironic joke undermines the very core of existence of the University--but for some reason or other nearly every Harvard man considers himself the top man of his private totem pole...
...second point, that there is an exciting and rich vocabulary of typographical images available, is dramatized by a huge photomural depicting the evolution of calligraphy and type and by the sheer voluminous variety of contemporary solutions to problems of textural and visual communication. From freely drawn Japanese calligraphy to highly formalized modern type face, the means of achieving typographical excellence are all too abundant...
...Senator Goldwater convinced me that he is honest, sincere and moral. Sheer terror overwhelmed me when I considered his possible election...
...classmate in The Bronx's prestigious De Witt Clinton High School) to plan a work that would "expose the corruption in American life. I am fascinated by decadent faces." Baldwin's brief text is oddly irrelevant, obviously hasty, too often drawn on by his sheer flow of language into shrill overstatement: "No one is happy here." The 54 Avedon photographs are something else again: a chilling, engrossing display of ferocity...