Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed prepared to risk repeating the electoral disaster of 1964, when many state and local Republican officeholders were carried to defeat along with Goldwater. In a way, ideology means more than victory to the far right. Many are agitating for a third party that would contain only the ideologically pure of heart. William Rusher, publisher of the National Review, is a conservative who wants to start a third party. But he writes scathingly of some conservatives as "personalities who are simply incapable of participating in a collective effort, especially if that effort requires them to subordinate their own preference...
...phys ical prowess and Delaunay's abstract disc-paintings was light. The filament bulb was just beginning to transform the appearance of Paris, and artificial light fascinated Delaunay. His earlier paintings, done under the influence of Seurat and the pointillists, contained sun discs rendered in thick dabs of pure color. A recurrent image in the poetry of the pre war avantgarde, especially in Apollinaire's, was of a world revived, bathed, transformed by natural and artificial light. That was the essential subject of Delaunay's disc-paintings. An eye used to the targets and stripes of painting...
...argument justifying torture as a necessary evil is dangerous and flawed. The fact is that the purpose of torture, more often than not, is pure and simple repression of all opposition. Moreover, once torture is sanctioned, even against genuine terrorists, the network of torture has a way of becoming a Frankenstein's monster, finding reasons for a continued existence even after its initial tasks have been accomplished...
...that if all that is done, the U.S. "could surpass the Middle East as the world's chief exporter of energy." Given the fact that proven oil reserves in Saudi Arabia alone are 4.5 times those in the U.S., that statement is a flight of pure fancy...
...democratic labor party of the European type. But the Democrats are possibly more alive than those relics: they contain a cross-section of the nation, have little real opposition to their left, and the Democratic progressives' long exile in the opposition has made them a bit more skeptical of pure welfare-statism than its European counterparts...