Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running dog," etc.) in front of Chiang Kai-shek's name, now treats him as if he were merely a stubborn old fellow. But Chou could not resist a passing reference to Formosa's "dying gasp." Answered Nationalist China's Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh: "Pure nonsense...
...Newport event this year will feature, besides its pure-bred jazz performers, the music of a new convert named Friedrich Gulda. Gulda is a classical pianist from Austria--about the best Beethoven pianist now extant--who has decided to devote half of his musical time to jazz, and who will introduce some of his own jazz compositions at the Festival...
Little Appeal. Stockhausen's sound sources are instruments familiar to any radio engineer: a sine-wave generator to produce a pure tone, a pulse generator to control timing of the sounds, a noise generator to produce vague rumbles, whooshes and thunders, and various filters. Once he has created the desired combination of sounds, he records them on tape and snips and joins and re-records until his composition is done. It took him a year and a half to complete a 17-minute composition. The result has many of the qualities of twelve-tone music by the late Anton...
...Horror but Joy. For .most Outsiders, such moments of acceptance and reconciliation come, if at all, in fragments of visionary and mystical experience. Such a moment came to T. E. Lawrence in the desert among the Bedouins, when he visualized God as "pure mind." It came to George Fox, who tried to institutionalize it in the Quaker movement, whose members were to be guided by an "inner light." It came to Nijinsky as he made the final entry in his diary: "My little girl is singing: 'Ah ah ah ah.' I do not understand its meaning...
...While this is a philosophical "happy ending," it sounds suspiciously like a chaos of fecundity, something that scarcely bothered Shaw (or Wilson either, apparently) since the sage of Ayot St. Lawrence had a bumptious faith that the Life Force, as he called it, was busily breeding a race of pure, disembodied intellects or super-Shaws...