Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a year, Chicago's Pure Oil Co. has been much like the princess of a Norwegian fairy tale: sitting on top of a hill of glass, she watched as a host of suitors tried to negotiate the slippery slope to win her hand. Pure would welcome a corporate marriage, all right: although its sales in the past ten years have risen 64% , to $630 million, gas wars and short supplies of Pure-produced crude have cut earnings to a disappointingly steady $30 million. Plenty of wooers have tried the hill but slipped on Pure's fussy...
...Pure found Union's proposal the most attractive of all. Union suggested an exchange of stock rather than out right purchase; the move would free Pure's 48,000 stockholders - among them, the unsuccessful Loeb, Rhoades -from paying capital-gains taxes on a sale. Unlike Atlantic, which also offered a stock swap, Union appears willing to retain Pure as a separate division with its old brand names and management...
...Line & Stencil. For much of his chameleon career, Picasso regarded graphics as another kind of drawing, but the pure lines contrasting with hard planes of his late linoleum cuts bring out his simplification of nature in a sharper manner than his oils. Matisse found that his late, swimming arabesques could be better executed by stencils than by brush bristles. Miro learned that his love of texture was readily brought out by the relief in paper of etching. In Chagall's 13 editions on the Arabian Nights, he found that colors of lithography achieved a brazen Oriental romance that oils would...
...Faculty members had a hand in its drafting, although no all of them support all of its provisions. In addition to Constable they are Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy; Bernard Bailyn, professor of History; Walter Jackson Bate, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of the Humanities; Garrett Birkhoff, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics; Reuben Brower, professor of English; Brice Chalmers, Gordon McKay professor of Metallurgy; J. Peterson Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; H. Stuart Hughes, professor of History; Carl Kaysen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; Mrs. Wilma Kerby-Miller, Academic Vice-President...
...effortless, flawless soprano swooped and soared above Strauss's heavy, quirky orchestration even when she was writhing on the floor to entice the lecherous Herod. Her phrasing was impeccable, her tone as silver-pure as a Nordic winterscape. Even John the Baptist would have lost his head...