Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fourberies de Scapin, a pure and wild farce, is one of the company's outstanding productions, which is to say that it is among the greatest productions given anywhere in the world. The set is a masterpiece of brilliance and balance; each costume expresses the character of the actor who wears it, and each is designed with the most subtle awareness of how its colors will complement those of the set; at any given instant the placement of actors on the stage is perfectly arranged; the audience's eyes are always guided to where the action is going...
...impress a young lady-rents a house and hires himself two parents and an old family retainer. Then it turns out that he already has a wife, whose wealth keeps his real parents and his mistress and her husband in luxurious idleness. Soon these shoddy-chic cadgers, the pure, unworldly young lady and the three hired attendants are caught up with the young man in an Anouilhan dance of masks and mummery, of virginal love and veteran hate, pouncing as they pirouette, conspiring as they bid adieu...
Rendezvous provides another very Anouilhan clash of sentiment and cynicism, another dream of the pure in a world of the tarnished. As playwriting it never fulfills its bright first-act promise; along with what is striking and amusing, there ensues too much babble of talk and muddle of tone. It is here that the matter of production becomes crucial: a play so nonchalant and brittle needs more than the intelligent off-Broadway staging it has been given. It needs more gloss, more speed, more edged insouciance, needs the light shrug, the swift glance, the faint smile, the finished gesture...
Future Debt. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is testing the X-15, emphasizes that it is a pure research airplane with no immediate applications. But it is no secret that the X-15 is an important step toward controlled re-entry from space. The first humans who return to earth from an orbit will probably depend on parachutes to lower them gently to a passive landing. This is the approach of U.S. Project Mercury and presumably of the Soviet man-in-space program. A more ambitious approach is to glide the returning space craft down through the atmosphere...
...employees to take a fresh look, Land gives them an individual freedom rare in industry. He offers them special courses in everything from chemistry to photography, often switches production workers to research or engineering projects to forestall boredom and encourage new interests. He encourages his scientists to pursue pure-research projects on their own at least part of the time. Land's aim is "the ideal company" in which "the working life is so deeply satisfying, so richly rewarding that leisure becomes relaxation rather than escape." Land himself spends much of his time in his laboratory in the company...