Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Falstaff McClosky just didn't fit. All his friends knew he didn't fit and perhaps he had known it first of all. Here he was twenty years old, a Harvard junior, and completely left out. It was irony pure and simple. Everyone else seemed at least partially unfulfilled, partially frustrated, somewhat disturbed. But not Falstaff. His life was a model of emotional serenity. Indeed, it was often doubted that he possessed any emotions in the first place. He had failed completely to achieve frustration...
...mock Churchill's famed crack that the Cross of Lorraine was the heaviest he had to bear, he was presented with a cross carved out of pure crystal and weighing three pounds. No sly repayment of old wounds was intended (A great leader, De Gaulle once wrote, "only slightly tastes the savor of his revenge, because action absorbs him entirely"). Instead, removing his two-starred kepi, De Gaulle gave Churchill the standard French embrace of a peck on both cheeks...
...response to this bewildering multitude of problems may be, an observer has suggested, "to try to make the country pure by whacking it with the flat of his broadsword." His expressed eagerness to settle the Kashmir dispute must be set against the intransigence of his recent statements on the subject, which, though no doubt appealing to many of his countrymen, won't solve anything. General Ayub has been a conservative man. Though he may have to produce some radical programs, the political inexperience of his advisors will prove no help to him in making them stick. Already he has found...
...Balloon. Cairo's talk of mobilization was "pure imagination," said the Israelis. Yet they plainly took great interest in Jordan's unsettled condition. Arab leaders, to a man, suspect that Israel longs to expand to the Jordan River, thus absorbing most of the old Palestine, encompassing all of Jerusalem, and gaining a more defensible eastern frontier. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion confided to an English newspaperman that if there was to be any change in Jordan's status, Israel would like to see the west bank of the Jordan River demilitarized and guarded by U.N. troops...
...Less purely fundamental work has found itself subjected to similar ill-treatment. The composer deBreville wrote of his colleague Chausson: "He had no reason to fear or avoid vulgarity for he knew not what it was." And then the legions of Hollywood score composers came along and bled Franck, Chausson and company for all they were worth. It takes a pure mind not to find traces of "movie-music" in Chausson. But Chausson is not responsible for what happened; nor are the worshippers of the African jungles or of Oceania responsible for what became of their religious expression...