Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American spirit is deeply divided about money. In one sense the faith in money is pure: it need not, as it does in so many older societies, apologize for its existence. Money is what it is-good in its own right, a sign of success, if perhaps no longer of divine grace. Yet this view is at war with an older tradition from which, even in a country that slights history, the imagination is never quite free: whether in the Bible or in fairy tales or in great works of fiction, money is held in contempt. The great callings...
...Singer-Actress Raquel Welch of the explosive number she wears on the July cover of Los Angeles magazine. "And if Betsy Ross was a lady of today, she wouldn't think anything of it either." Maybe not, but Raquel's bikini does fall a trifle short of pure Americana. She bought it last winter in Brazil...
...celebrities from (of course) Washington to John Adams and Aaron Burr, as well as portraits of some of the American painters for whom they sat. Each personality has a facing page of biography. The faces often encourage long and fascinated scrutiny. The biographies, though they are mostly fashioned of pure cardboard, help a good deal to familiarize the reader with the names and numbers of some of the lesser rebel players in the War of Independence...
This trust in reason is an audacious concept, and never before has a people deliberately set out to establish its political life on a principle so pure. Some argue that it is too pure a principle for fallible men. George III may be wrongheaded, they acknowledge, but the British monarchy is all that stands between the Americans and discord, disunity, and that brutish world of brutish men that the English Philosopher Thomas Hobbes envisioned more than a century ago. These skeptics dismiss as naive optimism the arguments of the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau that natural man is good...
...charge of plagiarism against my book Passages [May 10] is wholly false. There are no precise facts when one is examining the human personality. And there are almost no pure ideas: everyone has been influenced by someone who has gone before. We are all students of Freud. In this instance, the original theory came from Erik Erikson. Most of the current research, I discovered, was being done by men who were studying other men. I focused on-the life stages of women, and once it became apparent that the development rhythms of the two sexes are strikingly unsynchronized, I went...