Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HEAVY METAL. So named because of the massive banks of amplifiers, drums and loudspeakers employed by Grand Funk, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult. The music is pure buzz -heavy, simplistic blues played at maximum volume and wallowed in mostly by young teen-agers just experimenting with marijuana, the lingua franca of rock, and perhaps hard drugs...
...safe to assume that Louisa May Alcott would have approved of this new screen version of Huckleberry Finn. "If Mr. Clemens cannot think of something better to tell our pure-minded lads and lasses," she said about his raffish novel, "he had better stop writing." Seeming to take the prim spirit of her outrage for their shaping force, the people involved with this movie have sanitized Huck's language and turned him into a nearly perfect little gent...
...sponsor workshops and summer research programs in order to maintain ties to the Harvard black community, another good suggestion. The University has the chance to establish an institute that could instruct and enrich the academic lives of black students at Harvard, and it shouldn't create instead a remote, pure-research institute that will help only the scholars who work...
...wear three hats--as president, a dean, and a faculty member [she is associate professor of Psychology and Social Relations]. I'm still teaching now; it's pure insanity. I was really led to think this would be a half-time job, but if you take it seriously and ask hard questions, it takes more time. But I really am primarily a teacher and researcher, though I promised to stay in this job through next spring, when the merger expires." After which, if she leaves her post then, the president of Radcliffe College will have to start worrying about getting...
...words, the University "would be more realistically representative if more older people were mixed in as students." Kiely would like to see people from a broad range of careers come here both as students, to promote diversity, and as instructors, to present views from people other than pure academicians...