Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Force and other branches of the military seem just as concerned as the Ford Foundation with pure or basic research. The reason for this concern is a matter of history...
...research in that field we would have been in deep trouble. And the term "general knowledge" was loosely used. It became very clear that out security--militarily and politically--was tied up in education. One way to keep the level of education and general knowledge high was to subsidize pure research...
...Defense Department, it was decided, would be the best channel to disseminate research money. The department had good relations with Congress, and in the huge defense budgets an item like pure research subsidies would be easily obscured...
...America has never been easy," he told labor leaders in Manhattan. "On the one hand is the old coalition of standpatters and naysayers. They never wanted to do any thing, but this year they say they can't do it because of Viet Nam. Well, that's pure bunk. And far off at the other end of the spectrum, there are those who say, 'What America has built is rotten. Let's tear it apart.' I say they're both wrong. I say we can meet our commitments at home and abroad...
...high sheen, which is now expected on the American scene, along with dynamic soloistic virtuosity, which is not. Of the 18 works in its repertory only one (a restaging by Director Brian Macdonald of The Firebird) ranks as a classic standby. The other 17 range from abstract studies in pure motion to dance translations of contemporary headlines. In Stuart Hodes' Abyss, a pair of fragile lovers are attacked by three hoodlums; Rudi van Dantzig's Monument for a Dead Boy poignantly traces an adolescent's struggles against parental misunderstanding at home and the temptations of life outside...