Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...between professional scholarship and a more general education--or rather, when it does make this distinction, it lapses into flaccid indirection. Not that this is the departments' fault: outside of tutorial, departments are too busy to concern themselves specially with undergraduates. But granting this to be true, it is pure foolishness to give the special fields unregulated control over the most essential instruction of more than 300 Freshmen...
Every once in a while, somebody alarms about half the Masters with the suggestion that assigning Freshmen to House be the job of "some fellow with a computer." Such a scheme sounds like pure buck-passing, and in some ways it is just that, for the preparation of a complex problem for processing by any kind of automatic calculating device naturally takes a good many hours' work. And yet, as it happens, the computer alternative to the system that now overwhelms House staffs each spring is--if conceivably not desirable--at least feasible. It could almost certainly be made...
Even a graceful loser must endure the inevitable round of post-mortems conducted by second-guessers who think they know why he lost or how he might have won. Last week it was Loser Dick Nixon's lot to suffer a post-mortem that, for pure tastelessness, rivaled Nixon's own graceless gibe at the press...
Raja Yoga, Mishra said, is an "integral and harmonious movement of attention or consciousness by integral fields into integral fields." It is a disciplined movement of psychic forces "from unreality to reality, from sex to pure meditation, from forces of self to the cosmic forces of the universe...
...Boys," a famous headmaster of Eton once remarked, "you must be pure in heart, for if not, I will thrash you till you are." For centuries, guided by such rough-and-ready principals, Eton turned out 19 Prime Ministers, hundreds of British M.P.s, and presumably won the battle of Waterloo on its playing fields. But in this querulous century, in novels and memoirs, such latter-day Etonians as Osbert Sitwell, Aldous Huxley, Cyril Connolly and George Orwell have all looked back in irony or outrage at the cult of games, the bullying and beatings, the high premium placed by school...