Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard faculty, and thus not very Johnsonian. The next one should be for us; a thunderous account of this incredible man's 40 years in or near the center of power. That book is bottled up in him, and the problem is getting it out in its pure state...
...deficit. It was faculty members, acting out their own brand of idealism, who put research on the pedestal in the late '50s. Now some professors are following the students' lead in seeking to make training more appropriate to the practice of community medicine. Class hours devoted to pure science are being reduced in favor of earlier and more intense clinical work and less technical studies...
...police suddenly attack the other dancers? Why does the Spanish lady's flamenco collapse into a laugh-creating parody of itself? The answer, of course, is that those actions titillate theatrically-for an instant. Ballet, an art of linear grace and movement, is even less a medium of pure intellect than painting or opera. But it is not made relevant by playing games with half-digested references to yesterday's headlines...
...Friday night's defeat was a loss, pure and simple. The fourth quarter of a soccer game is usually punctuated by several desperation, dangerous rushes. Yet, by the fourth quarter Friday, it was painfully apparent that it was only a matter of time until Penn's fans went wild with victory. You couldn't put the blame for the loss on a bad break or rotten luck. The Crimson was outplayed, on defense and offense...
...best work, an effortless and lovely cloud of confetti about the decline of the sweet, the good and the pure, was called Trout Fishing in America. The main character was Trout Fishing itself-among the cleanest and most refreshing combinations of words in English. Unfortunately, this personification of a peerless gerund suffered a surrealistic metamorphosis that included its becoming a pen point, a legless alcoholic and a dinner companion of Maria Callas. At the end, Trout Fishing wound up in a junkyard as a used stream, for sale by the foot...