Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senturia made a short appearance in the first half of the concert to accompany Dorothy Crawford in A. Scarlatti's "Ombre Opache" and Monteverdi's Con Che Soavita. Mrs. Crawford used her pure voice to great advantage in instilling warmth and emotion into the arias, and Mr. Senturia provided her with sensitive accompaniment...
Dick MacKinnon was very strong in the nets, turning away thirty shots, his high for the season. Many of the shots, however, were pure gifts by the defense, which obviously missed Jim Herscot's steadying hand, a hand badly sprained against Dartmouth. The clearing was wild and haphazard, and dropped balls in front of the cage resulted in one easy Tufts goal and three near-misses...
...most was the robust, open humor and friendliness, the sunny exuberance that blew through the whole performance. The full-bodied Russian girls were ingenuously sensuous without being sensual. The men-possibly the most masculine male dancers ever to kick a leg in Manhattan-performed their muscle-twisting feats witha pure animal joy of movement rarely seen on the stage. Wrote Critic Harold Clurman: "The qualities these dancers possess are those we [Americans] like to claim as our own when we feel ourselves to be at our best...
...beat it. We offer speed, service, safety and new planes." Real has built its fleet to 120 (v. Panagra's 19), and most of the other lines have big plans. The state-owned Argentine Airline is wrapping up a $28 million deal for six de Havilland Comet 4 pure jets to start 13-hour service between Buenos Aires and New York (almost a year before Panagra gets DC-8 jets on the same run). Varig has ordered French Caravelle jets; Real has bought four Convair jet 880s, will fly a route to Tokyo...
...kind of weeping in one's chest. A weeping that could not be wept." At novel's end, with a profound sense of release shared by boy and reader alike, the boy is ready to abandon his grey world of failing sight for the luminous realm of pure sound...