Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...friend describes it, "Some famous wit--was it Dr. Johnson?--said of a sentence of hanging that 'it concentrates the mind wonderfully'. So also jumping--in particular that delirious moment of exit--concentrates consciousness in a blindingly bright, diamond hard point. Mind has triumphed; this is the moment of pure reason...
Ever since lasers-a word and an instrument stemming from Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation-were first perfected, their fierce, pure gleam has been one of the most revolutionary tools of advancing science. By stimulating the atoms of a synthetic ruby with brief bursts from a powerful strobe lamp, scientists demonstrated that they could produce spurts of "coherent" light -pure red light that is all of the same wavelength, all polarized in the same direction, and all traveling in phase in almost perfectly parallel beams. Such light can be focused so sharply that its energy is concentrated...
...help the taxpayer stay pure, the Internal Revenue Service has set up a system of checks and double checks. When a return first lands on the desk of a local collector, it is scanned for proper information and necessary enclosures. Minor errors are corrected, and marginal sarcasm from taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding...
...idea how it would sound, had determined only that it would last ten minutes, involve certain props and three performers doing more or less as they pleased. It was a prime sample of what students of the avant-garde call "indeterminate" music, i.e., music that is based on almost pure chance...
...young composers join the aleatory ranks every year, most critics denounce the movement as fraudulent, or misguided, or both. Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...