Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history that sees patterns where there are none, ideologies which sacrifice men today to a vision of the future, or statecraft that promises more than it can deliver, all come under Aron's pitiless onslaught. The purpose of such demolition is not to clear the way for a pure and total science of society. Aron sees society as far too complex and changing to allow for any general theory valid for all times and places; he conceives of science as a quest, not a set of laws, and tries to define the different logics of behavior which operate different sectors...
...Court of Appeals in Cincinnati reversed Weinman's opinion. To dissenting Judge George Edwards, a former Detroit police commissioner, the record showed a "flagrant" denial of Sheppard's constitutional rights. But to Judges Clifford O'Sullivan and Harry Phillips that was pure assumption. While praising Weinman's "commendable concern," they concluded-that Cleveland's admittedly "shabby" reporting was still not enough to prejudice Sheppard's jurors. Moreover, they went on to virtually sweep aside the entire bar position on the effects of prejudicial reporting. Said they: "Our jury system cannot survive...
...Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams. It is not pure happenstance that the three truest plays of the modern American theater, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman and Williams' The Glass Menagerie, are family dramas. When the domestic relationship is illuminated by a playwright of size, intensity and perception, it becomes the perdurable stuff of human existence. All of these plays share two touchstones of the classic: inevitability and immutability. One cannot imagine their happening in any other way, and one cannot imagine a time...
...current season, on and off Broadway, has been less distinguished for its successes-few and far between-than for the remarkable survival rate of plays that were none of them straightforward hits back when they opened. The formulas of pluck, luck or pure hokum involved were never the same, but together they make a fascinating catalogue of the remarkable methods used to make some shows...
...prevailing trends in espionage-crime literature today go in opposite directions. One heads toward the pure escapism of Fleming flimflam, the other never comes in from the cold of procedural realism. The current best of the two worlds...