Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...works in broad strokes, so swiftly that she can finish even a group portrait within a couple of hours. She relies almost as much on pure intuition in portraits as in her abstract expressionist work. "If I paint fast, the painting becomes unconscious, almost as if someone else was doing the painting and I the manual labor...
Scholarly Swarms. Where is the multiversity going? At a time when C. P. Snow estimates that about 80% of the West's pure science research is going on in the U.S., says Kerr, "good scholars tend to swarm together," and university centers are coalescing into "mountain ranges" of higher education. Kerr charts three "great plateaus." The first runs from Boston to Washington, D.C., embraces 46% of the nation's Nobel science winners and 40% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences. Next comes the West Coast university complex with 36% and 20%, followed...
...obedience. But even Julie proves to have an ego. Bored with drab suburbia, she asks to go to New York. Malcolm considers the city vaguely, sexually menacing, and refuses. In exasperation. Julie strips off her clothes in front of a visiting clergyman, shattering her parents' illusion of a pure, desexualized love...
...history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost." Yet he supported the theory that duty required teachers to cooperate with congressional investigators even if the "powers of legislative inquiry are abused." He blasted athletic scholarships, "the greatest swindle ever perpetrated on American youth," bulled through the simon-pure code that now governs Ivy League football. He fought to repeal the federal student loan "disclaimer affidavit" ("we cannot legislate loyalty"), scorned the "methodological pedagogy" of teachers' colleges...
...sighs. I want no one to forget the slammed door, the lost handkerchief, the hidden cigarette, the broken shoelace; I want to be bound so tight that at the slightest movement the chains will bruise my flesh. I want to be pierced by light, I want to be absolutely pure...