Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffered from a crippling writer's block, and complained of sterility and decay. Even the Nobel, awarded in 1957, was perceived as both an honor and an invasion of privacy. "I'm castrated!" he complained to a friend. The cry, like many of his statements, was pure theater. Yet as Lottman shows, Camus produced no more major work. He retreated to the sanctity of his home, to Francine and their twins, and was at work on a new novel, The First Man, when he was suddenly killed. He was eulogized every where; even Sartre wrote a lyric tribute...
...March, you see, most of the towns surrounding Boston celebrate the spring by holding town meetings, an annual custom as old as the first settlements in the area. And if you're a government student bored of hearing professors drone on about "pure democracy" that's a fact you should take note...
...liveliest game around, town meetings live on. The population has increased enough in some towns that the system has been modified--Lexington, for example, has representative town meetings, with 200 residents elected to speak for the other 35,000. Other smaller towns, like Bedford and Concord, still retain the pure "direct town meeting" form...
...change are working. It can be both inadequate and misleading to argue that the nation's adults have become less hospitable to children. In their history, Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock, insisted in 1928 that children must be treated with cold scientific...
...good cause (a school for public servants or a chair in Third World studies) than that it be reinvested in those illegitimate enterprises. By these criteria, the Engelhard Foundation's money could be kept, but the name must be changed--the motive behind the gift may have been pure, but its effect is to make legitimate (to future public servants and the public) America's complicity in apartheid...