Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting up to sharpen pencils." But self-discipline is another matter. To encourage it, the teachers try to steer a middle course. They refuse to insist on the old obedience, which often prevents kids from learning the consequences of their own choices. Even so, the teachers also shun the pure permissiveness that says if a child is allowed to goof off long enough, he will decide for himself that work is more satisfying. The resulting hybrid might be called "permissipline...
...once she had been superbly inquisitive, she now could relate things only in terms of her religion ?but she had a focal point for all her energy." Sociologist Andrew Greeley calls Catholic Pentecostalism the "most vital movement in Catholicism right now," but warns that it could become "just pure emotion, even a form of hysteria." The Rev. George Peters of the United Presbyterian Church says of the Jesus People: "I see dangers. This biblical literalism. The kids quote verses without understanding them to prove a point. I thought we'd outgrown that. I'd like to see some kind...
...beach at Encinitas is a brand of Christianity that is pure California. Ed Wright, 26, owner of the Sunset Surf Shop and principal apostle of the Christian Surfers, tells how Jesus adds a special dimension to the sport. "It's so beautiful when you are with the Lord and catch a good ride. When you are piling out for the next one you just say 'Thank you Lord for being so good to us and for the good waves and the good vibes.'" Christ is the essential focus, though. Surfer Mike Wonder, a fellow convert, sought Christ after he found...
Almost inevitably, The Goldberg Variations invites comparison with Robbins' Dances at a Gathering, another lengthy "pure" ballet that was set to some piano pieces by Chopin. Robbins himself refuses to play the game. "I am not in a contest with anything," he says, and insists that it was only by chance that his last two major ballets were both inspired by keyboard works. Clearly, though, Dances is in every sense a Romantic work-open, playful, exuberant, instantly approachable. Variations is far more formal and classic, and far more demanding as well...
What wonder then that pure blind rage-the feeling that " there is some shit I will not eat " -drove many into an action that both unjust and stupid...