Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk about how Harvard should either time-travel back to the seventeenth century or adjust to the newer ones. Or I could talk about my amazement at discovering that Harvard buildings are often littered with hand-scrawled signs bearing institutional messages instead of neatly printed ones. Or about the pure hate I have felt on occasion for University administrators-like on April 10, 1969. Or about the cold fear I feel when I realize that after the Class of '72 leaves very few of you will remember that dawn, which has always seemed to me the purest expression of Harvard...
...places have names: Belgorod, Kharkov, Kiev. Catastrophe follows catastrophe. But finally, like war itself, The Forgotten Soldier obliterates time and space into a pure throbbing pain whose only limit is death or madness...
...Best of all was the old lady who runs a little bookstore. The best thing in her politics and history section was about an Indian revolt in 1847. I asked if there was not something "more recent." She caught my meaning. "All the current stuff that isn't pure propaganda is illegal. If I had it here, the police would come and arrest me, maybe even kill me! The Committee for the Defense of the Revolution! " She almost spat. "But if you are in Mexico you can get good books-Bauer Paiz and Galleano." "That is one of the most...
...positioned himself as an independent, free of party encumbrances. In what seemed an innocent enough proposition at the time, he promised to line up with whichever party gained control of the senate. The appeal worked, and Palmer became the first nonLiberal senator ever elected in his district. It was pure Cinderella, with Palmer as the star. Then some very funny things began to happen on the way to the political ball...
...score; opera has to develop plot and characters verbally-with the words sung by the characters. The tendency, then, is for the music to become somewhat subordinate to, and tied to, the structure of the words. The Who's Tommy avoided the problem by keeping very close to pure rock performance; but Tommy's pretensions to being conventional opera are even weaker than Superstar's. Despite some capable back-up musicians and a particularly good performance by Ian Gillam as Judas, Superstar mixes rock with pop and produces too much schmaltz. The brightest moment of the whole show...