Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drives make giving almost painless. Students need only reach reach for their checkbooks or piggy banks; in fact the ease of contributing may detract from the pure virtue of the deed. But on the eventual receiving ends, the hoped-for financial aid is needed and welcome, no matter what the medium of donating. Though undergraduates do not form a very corporate body, students should feel no pique at being canvassed en masse. A concerted drive is the most efficient way of raising funds, and you can name your own recipient of the funds you give--from the Red Cross...
...deserted the Germans of her own will, and Kautner elicits a dramatic poignancy that is almost unbearable. In just the last few frames of one sequence a kitten appears to follow Helga out of the room, and by his cinematic control the director turns the kitten into a pure manifesation of the faltering yet beautiful spirit of the girl. And the symbol of the bridges itself is handled superbly. The first bridge is love, the rapport of one individual with another; the rest are humanitarian honor, the responsibility towards mankind of one who is not an island...
...voice is pure, rich and carries the haunting, dusky legato that still echoes the New Orleans of 40 years ago. It growls through the classic wails of Special Delivery Blues, Mighty Rumbling Blues, St. Louis Blues. In the upper register it is nothing more than a hoarse squeak; but down in the subterranean passages it flows, moans, glides and sighs with a power that has been achieved before-by Bessie Smith, Lizzy Miles-but that is still as rare as a 20-carat diamond...
...Holmes Sr. once called the "Macaulay flowers of literature." But if the book never enticed the readership he thought it deserved, it may have been because its nine volumes did not show that he had followed his own editorial creed ("Omit! Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit . . ."). In Author Samuels' view, Adams' philosophy of history parallels Tolstoy's in War and Peace, i.e., history is "a vast irony, a web of paradoxes," and the hero is merely froth on the crest of all great tidal waves of change. What animated the wave, Adams...
During Maillol's lifetime, his sculpture underwent less of an evolution than Renoir's painting, however. Maillol seemed always to have been at one with a Classical harmony, a Classical grace, a pure vision. The absence of turmoil and conflict which marks Maillol's sculpture and drawing is as fascinating in terms of his life as in regard to his work. Rouault, too, maintained a constant and intensive vision throughout his career, but the difference in temperament here is immense. Maillol, working until 1944 with a turn-of-the-century ardor, seemed to exist in a rapport with nature usually...