Word: sheers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eternal innocent. The implacable innocent. The innocent who confounds authority, the sophistry of law and the mindless brutalities of bureaucracy with sheer simplicity and obdurate truth. In the endless flux of empires, ideologies and wars, he is the irreducible survivor. Such a one was Voltaire's Candide, Cervantes' Sancho Panza, Joseph Heller's Yossarian-and Jaroslav HaŠek's Good Soldier Švejk...
...sheer energy expended here could power every pacemaker in the country for the next 75 years, but it is power spilled back into a void: a silly wartime, a waxworks of the way we really never were. ∎Lance Morrow
RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIANISM. Here in Russia, out of sheer lack of practice, democracy survived for only eight months, from February to October 1917. The émigré groups of Constitutional Democrats and Social Democrats to this very day still take pride in this and say that outside forces brought about democracy's collapse. But in reality that democracy was a disgrace. They invoked it and made promises for it with arrogance, but then they created only a chaotic caricature of democracy. They themselves were ill prepared for democracy, and Russia worse still...
...compensate for my shallow theoretical background, I played with sheer guts. From a king pawn opening, undertaken on Reinfields's advice, I would launch into an attack trying to win a few pieces. By third grade, I had mastered the rudiments of the knight fork. By fourth grade, I was pondering the implications of the pin. For a while, I met with success--chess became a way for a runt to get back at the world...
Role Reversals. Other men object to the sheer drudgery of housework. "I can't stand cleaning," admits Author Robert Kimmel Smith, 42, who writes in his Brooklyn, N.Y., home and cares for his children while his wife Claire works full time as a literary agent. Schacter enlivens his vacuuming chores by plugging in a set of stereo headphones. Cincinnati Househusband Ken Onaitis, 26, slaves over a hot stove and grew angry at first when his wife arrived home late for dinner. Says he: "Well, you work two hours over something...