Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walter Pater's famous, puzzling phrase, "all art constantly aspires towards the condition of music." Abstractionists often make this an argument for dispensing with subject matter, as pure music does. But Burchfield, an ardent hi-fi fan, imbues his landscapes with musical qualities while keeping them close to nature. From the grace notes of its stiff-frozen weeds and goldenrod to the black surge and sudden blazings of its sky, Burchfield's new picture eloquently sings...
...Upper Limit. For men like Sir Charles Darwin, who predicts that 20th century man's descendants will look back to this as "the golden age of earth," any suggestion that the population explosion can end in anything other than global misery is pure Micawberism-feckless reliance on the belief that"something will turn up." In fact, even Darwin's stoutest opponents mostly agree with German Expert Winfried Bolls who argues: "We have no time to lose. If we are unable to master the economic and sociological challenge which confronts us, we will be heading for catastrophe." The fundamental...
...proposed merger as the only way for the industry to regain its strength and avoid costly duplication of planes and missiles. What made de Havilland, also sought as a partner by Vickers-Armstrongs, so attractive is the fact that it manufactures the Comet, Britain's only commercial pure jet, and has a major share of Britain's missile industry. De Havilland also has orders from British European Airways for 24 of its new short-range jet, the D.H. 121. De Havilland Managing Director Sir Aubrey F. Burke liked the new tie-up, since he is slated to boss...
...passenger planes last year. Counting cargo, nonscheduled and training flights, there were 18 fatal accidents, with 329 deaths. On scheduled flights, the fatality rate jumped from .38 per 100 million passenger miles in 1958 to .73 in 1959, highest since 1952. The only bright note was that scheduled pure jets had no fatal mishaps (but there were two fatal crashes of turboprop Electras, and another of a turboprop Viscount...
Because he was a merciless critic of the ways of man, he nowhere suggested that his rebel is without sin, pure in his revolt against oppression. But at the end of The Plague he wrote: "There are in man more things to be admired than things to be scorned." Scorn was reserved for death, while man, with all his deceit and selfishness, was always worth the saving of himself...