Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican politicking down South pure cynicism by any means. After all, such Radical Republicans as Pennsylvania's Representative Thaddeus Stevens and Massachusetts' Senator Charles Sumner were the same ones who had been passionate prewar abolitionists. To suppose that they lost their ideals at Appomattox, writes Stampp, is absurd. "In fact, Radical Reconstruction ought to be viewed in part as the last great crusade of the 19th century romantic reformers." Other historians might boggle at calling the spiteful Stevens a romantic...
...pure sleight of hand, then, when the slick, funky, jazz in the background reminds us that this boy knows the sore; he has lived with the blues. Miss Clarke throws in an ineffectual white schoolteacher to thump the point home. She used the same heavy-handed stroke of irony with the paunchy filmmaker in The Connection...
...Whitney, charging that the article was false and libelous. "I urge you to stop its distribution," wrote Shawn. "I know exactly what Wolfe's article is-a vicious, murderous attack on me and the magazine I work for. It is a ruthless and reckless article; it is pure sensation-mongering ... In one stroke it puts the Herald Tribune right down in the gutter with the Graphic, the Enquirer, and Confidential...
...This is the night," began Hope, "that wars and politics are forgotten and we find out who we really hate." The show was off and trotting-the Academy Awards never run. What kept interest sparking during the preliminary events was pure starlight. In recent years, Hollywood has increasingly chosen to stay home and watch on TV, but this year, Academy Board Member Gregory Peck took it upon himself to change that, personally called everyone to be sure they would be there. It made a difference. Not only were there old-timers such as Fay Wray and Chester Conklin...
...suppressed obsessions, impulses not acted out quite, but lived on the edge of, destruction of the malignant in oneself, in what one loves, suicide and murder. Mostly, perhaps he tells of intercourse, intercourse with oceanic climax, coming in waves not of love, but of something between lust and pure aestheticism. All of the sex is magnificent, art, but written with the bristle of one who has also known...