Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eliminated a tenant from "the poor farm of American journalism"-as the late Oswald Garrison Villard described Boston's dismal and undistinguished newspaper scene (which, besides the two Hearst tabs, includes the Globe, the Herald and the Traveler). But Hearst's motive was less progress than pure economy. Both tabloids have been losing ground for years. Record circulation has dropped 59,000, to 352,842, since 1957; over the same period, the American has slipped from 176,318 to 163,169. After the merger was announced, dismissal telegrams went out to 222 employees; eventually the layoff figure...
...Became a Bore. Today, says Jones, "a new specter stalks architecture, the monotony of endless glass façades." Among the old masters, Le Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
...gets trapped into false hypotheses about what he is seeing. Result: embryo techniques for perceiving more astutely. The Center bustles with other odd projects, from teaching quadratic functions to young children to time-lapse photographs of tots drawing (the best way to see how they see). All this is pure research, but out of it may someday come a revolution in U.S. education...
...served free. Cold snacks will be available-at a price. First-class service will remain substantially unchanged. So-called "frills in the cabin," claim the airlines, now cost them about $60 million a year. Boyd's recommendation: "Devote less attention to being traveling dining rooms, more to pure transportation...
...scraping that boxful without letting Patty go short were amply crowned for John by this one moment. He sat down again in the corner wrapped in beatitude -Mary Webb) (a sense of deep beatitude - a strange sweet foretaste of Nirvana -Max Beerbohm) BLESSEDNESS suggests the deep joy of pure affection or of acceptance by a god (the blessedness of the saints) BLISS may apply to a complete and assured felicity (all my life's bliss from thy dear life was given -Emily Bronte) (now safely lodged in perfect bliss; and with spirits elated to rapture -Jane Austen...