Word: puree
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of the superintendent of education in Marin County, Calif., three elementary schoolteachers sat across a table facing four indignant supervisors. The supervisors had just made a horrifying discovery. The teachers had been teaching reading with a system based on pure phonics, and now, far from repenting, they wanted permission to buy a phonic text. As the debate raged back and forth, one supervisor finally blurted out: "But if we approve this book, other people will think we are giving in to Rudolf Flesch...
Such evidence, scattered and tentative as it is, may well seem powerful ammunition to the pure-phonics advocates. But the experts could marshal similar test scores and statistics, and they could point out that the phonics experiments have been tried only in small and select school systems. They could also add with complete justification that whatever system is used, today's schools, committed as they are to giving every boy and girl an education, no matter what his capabilities, are up against a heavier problem than any school system has ever faced before. Out of the controversy, it seems...
...seems to me," the Judge's opinion said, "that, as a pure matter of language, private operation of private industry is not 'activity performed by the government' on an 'operational level,' and that the general economy and efficiency of such private corporation was outside the scope of the Committee...
...academic Beaux Arts paintings hanging on the walls about them. Among them the clodhopperish. red-bearded Dutchman Vincent van Gogh, 34. Art Dealer van Gogh's younger brother, recently arrived in Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...
...reds and purples run streaks of flame as though a furnace were blazing before one's eyes, seat of all the painter's mental struggles. And all this on a background of chrome yellow with childish little bouquets of wild flowers. A room for a pure young girl . . ." To Vincent van Gogh, to whom nature was everything, it was Gauguin's sunken eyes that spoke. He wrote his brother Theo: "He looks like a prisoner, ill and tormented." Theo struggled to raise Gauguin's fare to Aries...