Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their music jazz, the Okayistes lean heavily on a hypnotic beat that is traditionally African mixed with a little twist, some of Ghana's syncopated High Life, and a sizable portion of swaying Latin American rhythms. The combination earns them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes when they return...
...companies now realize that their thousands of service stations offer ideal retail locations for one-stop shopping and tourist centers. Sohio and Jersey Standard are setting up roadside restaurants that cook instant meals in microwave ovens. Pure Oil plans a chain of 80 "TOURest" centers that will include a motel, an Aunt Jemima pancake house (for which it owns the franchise) and filling stations. Gulf Oil plans to invest $40 million in the Holiday Inns motel chain, and American Oil is installing automatic dry cleaners on its properties. Atlantic Refining is putting up garden-supply centers and shops that sell...
...reckless fanatic, and Moscow ostentatiously failed to back Peking. As for Khrushchev's withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba, the maneuver confirmed Mao's worst fears about vacillating Kremlin leadership, leaning first to "adventurism," then to "capitulationism." Thundered Peking: "It is 100% appeasement. A Munich pure and simple. Imperialism is only a paper tiger." To which Khrushchev replied: "The paper tiger has nuclear teeth. Only a madman would speak of a new world...
Tinkers' carts still creak along country roads; city air is as pure as Connemara spring water. Off the Aran Islands, fishermen still go out in currachs, their ancient coracles, and never learn to swim because they know death takes longer if they do. Ireland has in abundance the qualities that often seem to be dis appearing elsewhere: kindliness, an unruly individualism, lack of snobbery, ease, style and, above all, sly humor. Though the Irish have lived much of their lives with bloodshed and privation, their tales of the bad times are recounted with as little rancor as if they...
...almost every turn, the writers have something provocative to say. Katherine Anne Porter sees human life as almost pure chaos, but says: "The work of the artist-the only thing he's good for-is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning." The book's burden is probably best expressed by Lawrence Durrell. Though he suffers acute physical nausea over his work, Durrell nevertheless declares: "I find art easy...