Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sheer necessity once demanded that you own three houses, one in Malibu, one in Palm Springs and one in Beverly Hills. But now you can reverse field and have no house at all. This saves money and is considered bright. Billy Wilder has a simple $100,000 co-op apartment with a low monthly maintenance...
...have a gross floor area nearly triple that of the Pentagon; the five-storied base for the towers and a roomy plaza cover a 16-acre site that will require the abandonment of several existing streets. Yamasaki has switched from concrete, his favorite medium, to steel because of the sheer height of the towers, and instead of having the weight of the structure carried by the frame and the elevator core, the great steel columns of the exterior walls will support it. The stainless-steel outer ribs are only 22 inches apart, with glass between, giving the effect...
...office remains a refuge from home, and to many girls a refuge from the eligible but sometimes dull young men they meet in the outside world. One of the difficulties of the office affair, except for those who relish intrigue for its own sake, is the problem of sheer logistics and security. Semipublic, semipermanent affairs are still not readily condoned-or perhaps even really enjoyed-in the U.S. American men seem to have decided that if there is love, only marriage will suffice in the long run, and if there is no love, only boredom can result; thus does life...
...second run," she said-and onlookers gasped as she zipped through the 52 gates in the fastest time of the day, only to be disqualified for missing a gate. That was just a tune-up. Next day, in the giant slalom-a combination slalom and downhill that demands sheer straightaway speed as well as maneuverability-Jean snowed everybody under. Purists noted that her skis were too far apart and not quite parallel as she swooshed through the gates. But they could hardly fault the results: paying no attention to the ice, pumping furiously to get more speed, flipping through...
Unamuno put his trust in human passion, and even his driest philosophical speculation is passionately alive. On the other hand, Unamuno failed to see that passions can lead to sheer brutality, as they did in the Spanish Civil War. Unamuno liked to compare himself to Don Quixote in his contradictions and paradoxes, and his critics have accepted the analogy. "He was refined and savage," said one, "modern and medieval, with the unction of an apostle and the wisdom of a picaro, a man in whom all the defects and virtues of the Spanish race seem to culminate...