Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps the best-known Brown library is the divisional Physical Sciences Library. Stocked to supply the University's big, exceptionally strong Mathematics Department, it contains texts on pure math, its application, and its history. An evidence of the library's strength and completeness is the location of the headquarters of the American Mathematical Society across the street from the Brown campus. Recently the Math department mailed its six millionth microfilm of a rare text to an interested person...
...pure sciences, doctoral candidates rarely spend more than a year in actual courses. The remaining time is devoted to research, under close supervision by the student's faculty advisor, since the science departments feel their purpose is to train students to be competent researchers...
...play to a full house and an empty podium. The group was Arturo Toscanini's famed NBC Symphony, which NBC dropped last spring when the Maestro retired. Superbly trained, the men simply listened carefully to each other as they played, produced music that was perfect in balance, pure in articulation and movement. It sounded as if the Old Sorcerer were there on the podium. When the concert was done, the audience broke into an ovation that Toscanini himself had not often heard. Explained a bass player: "We learned from Toscanini to honor the will of the composer. We simply...
...Brubeck bends his lanky torso over the keys, concentrating like a child on a jigsaw puzzle, but his eyes are closed. The other members of the quartet-Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close, his long fingers glide...
...pictures began to sell a little, but rural seclusion remained Dove's choice. Landscape, he had decided, was the proper subject of his art. With pantheistic fervor he poured his feelings about nature into half-recognizable abstractions, trying always to dissolve what he saw into what he felt. Pure feeling was the gold Dove sought to distill from the dross of his materials...