Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action. It was primarily symbolic, and our use of a fast and jail depended in part for its impact upon the far greater sacrifices of others whose sacrifices are connected with those "symbols." And there is a recurring fear that my own motivation was partially narcissistic rather than a pure "other-directed" concern...
...forces as the enemy (TIME, March 1). During a sample period last year, military investigators found that confirmed or suspected heroin-connected deaths were occurring at a rate approaching one daily. Marijuana accounts for three-quarters of G.I. drug offenses in Viet Nam, but cheap (1/36th U.S. cost), extremely pure Laotian or Thai heroin is a tempting buy for men seeking temporary escape from the boredom and terror of war. It is less easily detected than pot. Moreover, G.I.s have developed the disturbing myth that if smoked-"snorted"-the drug is nonaddictive...
Nixon staunchly defended Hoover, saying that many of the charges against him were unfair and malicious. "I have been in police states and the idea that this is a police state is just pure nonsense," he said...
...terms of action, the spectator of an alienated "reality"-deached from its physical context-can only define his attitude, a situation that gives rise to the impotence of liberal guilt and its sublimation on the level of a vague idealism. Effective and detached political analysis is swept aside as pure intellectualism, heartlessness. And the underlying material determinants remain obscured...
While these sour truths seep in, the old Follies girls (De Carlo, Fifi d'Orsay, Mary McCarty) do their thing. Ethel Shutta siphons pure delight out of a number called Broadway Baby and reminds us, as do the others, of how much more verve, authority and presence the older stage professionals possessed than do many of their flaccid present-day counterparts. A campy show might have mocked the old stars, but Follies shows an un-American respect for age by honoring their skill, valiance and tenacity...