Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more pure and lovely, if possible are the voices of the Choristers of King's College, Cambridge, whose annual Christmas Eve service, A Festival of Lessons and Carols, London has also recorded (London 5523). This is the record our own Aunt Edna and Cousin Thelma will get, if we can bear to part with a single copy of it. The simple and elegant service (the lessons are read by a chorister, a choral scholar, three fellows, the dean, and the provost) and the remarkable and memorable carols (such as "Once in Royal David's City" and "Adam...
...long reach. Aphrodite, goddess of love, was able to renew her virginity simply by bathing in the sea. Now "astrophysicists relate that our life-giving sun renews its virginity also, by dint of a circular chain reaction. Every nucleus of carbon and nitrogen in the sun returns to its pure state once in five million years." This is ingenious rather than convincing, provocative rather than wise. And in his secret heart, Eliot knows it for the word game it is. But like the juggler who danced before the altar, Eliot is giving praise to the wonder of creation...
...reactor was beautifully simple. It was called a "pile," and it was literally that-a 500-ton pile of carefully machined bricks made of pure graphite. Imbedded in some of the bricks, in a precisely calculated pattern, were little cubes of uranium or uranium oxide. Long control rods, plated with the metallic element cadmium, were so set up that they could be withdrawn from, or inserted into, deep holes in the graphite...
...emphasis" that played so large a part in 19th century musical idiom. Clarity, precision, balance, proportion were the qualities he was trying for-and he achieved them so brilliantly that he became the great emancipator for a whole generation of composers. In his fascination with primary color, with pure emotion, he resembled the impressionist painters-Cezanne perhaps, or Monet. Debussy still surprises with his strange, exotic and otherworldly sound. Studied in fresh detail-in such books as British Musicologist Edward Lockspeiser's new biography, Debussy: His Life and Mind (Vol. 1)-he still fascinates as a talented and tormented...
Will he harm the little girl or is his feeling for her pure? It must be pure. "He's like a child. He's reliving his childhood...