Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stavros declares that he keeps his honor safe inside himself: "I believe that in America, I will be washed clean." But his obsessive hankering after America goes unjustified. The film even suggests that Stavros' monomania is sheer materialism. On the ship he throws away his fez, pledging to buy himself a straw boater in the new land. Was it then greed that drew him to the United States? Even his concern for his family does not balance the absence of higher motives...
First place in the dive could go to either Harvard's Dan Mahoney or Princeton's Gary Walters or Scott Andrews; the sheer force of numbers in the event means the Crimson will be praying for an even point split...
...which has become cinematically synonymous with the British middle-class. To escape the drabness of his clerkship at the local mortician's and the carpings of his parents and crotchety grandma, Billy manufactures absurd complications in his personal life. For a starter, he perpetually fabricates deceptions--apparently for the sheer adventure of extricating himself from the embarrassments which result. A neighbor inquires after his father: Billy unnecessarily invents disease and surgery. As the contradictions pile up, his lies grow more extravagant and improbable...
Mcclung is not really a big man as centers go: he stands 6-5 and weights 200 pounds. But the combination of sheer physical strength and deceptive moves under the basket have given McClung a 21.9 Ivy average--third beat in the League--and a 20.7 points per game overall scoring mark. At that rate the hot-shooting Harvard junior will eclipse the Crimson scoring record of 432 points...
...Says It's Best? These are both sincere attempts to give art some bests and firsts, but all art competitions are open to criticism for both methods and effects. Because of the sheer size of the task, it is virtually impossible for a jury or a single individual to be comprehensive in selecting entries, and the job is always complicated by the very rules intended to simplify it. Alloway of the Guggenheim was limited to choosing five artists per nation-equating the U.S. with Israel, for example-and also tried to make his choice from among artists born between...