Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of this effort in the course, I am at a loss to understand how your reporter could quote me as having characterized the Reading Class as a course in "examsmanship." The Examsman, pure type, is naturally free to derive what hints he can from our consideration of the writing of essays, but we imagine that the scheduling of the class at such unholy hours as 8 a.m. may discourage his too regular attendance. John W. Wideman
...Gaulle's concept of the state, as an instrument for the pursuit of the pure and unsullied national interest, under the direction of an impartial leader, men persisted in seeing a kind of capital of sovereignty, a last resort and farseeing leader, is by no means an impersonal one. Who else but De Gaulle could lead France in this fashion? If there is any one else, the General does not name him. Implicit in his entire work is the assumption that he alone is France's Man of Destiny; that, like Joan of Arc, he is unique and irreplaceable...
...example of how the course might integrate the various branches of chemistry, Westheimer explained that the physical chemistry of distillation could be studied in conjunction with the organic chemistry problem of obtaining a pure compound...
That single theme, single-mindedly propelled without change of pace, without subtlety of approach, had apparently plumbed an unsuspected concern in the land. Through the pure force of persuasion, Kennedy had won enough Americans to follow him on his own terms...
...exactly a pajama game. As Mark Twain and Rodgers & Hart had done with Connecticut Yankee, one method would have been to mock the legend with pure comedy. Others have played it straight an impressive list that includes Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace. Layamon, Chretien de Troyes, Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and now Alan Jay Lerner. In Camelot, he necessarily left out some of the legend's great characters: Sir Kay the Seneschal, Tristram and Isolde, Elaine the lily-maid of Astolat, even Sir Galahad, the squarest knight at the Round Table...