Word: pureed
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IRENE SACCO HALLER pure...
Mania for Numbers. The origin of such mechanical music is much older than Orwell. The German mathematician Baron Gottfried von Leibniz (1646-1716) observed that "composers are simply men with a mania for numbers." Others have also noted the persistent relationship between music and math-between pure science and pure art. Barbaud himself began speculating on the musical potential of computers after reading that Haydn leaned heavily on the laws of probability and sometimes rolled dice to make a choice among possible chord and key combinations. Every type of music, Barbaud decided, must have its own laws, all equally rigid...
...magazine said that House Minority Leader Charles Halleck (Ind.) and Senate Minority Leader Everett M. Dirkson (III.) are conducting "a holding operation pure and simple...
With a good deal of unwarranted confidence Mr. Rusk sailed into Punta del Este asking that the O.A.S. invoke diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba; we must keep the hemisphere pure, he said, the Alliance depends on it. By the time the most important O.A.S. members made it perfectly clear that they could not follow Mr. Rusk's logic, that they could not, in fact, see that sending coffee and Ambassadors to Cuba would injure the Alliance, Mr. Rusk's efforts shifted direction. To his credit, he persuaded Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to abstain from his resolution...
Cute Appendicitis. Unfortunately, Rosten alternates his serious chapters with scenes of pure situation comedy, belabored with literary vaudeville. The contrast with the scenes of death and suffering is ludicrous. A story that ends in suicide, for example, is immediately followed by one in which half the officers on the post, full of booze, jump into the officers' club pool in pursuit of a flock of ducks. In another episode, sheep get loose on the main runway when a plane carrying the Under Secretary of War for Air is about to land. There is a private from Alabama who thinks...