Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...themselves Tasaday (pronounced Taw-sawdai), did well to tremble. The most primitive human beings so far discovered on this guilty planet had turned to face the 20th century. There was culture shock on both sides. The Tasaday discovered evil; the rest of us discovered good in a form so pure it seemed almost incredible to a civilization that had long since abandoned Rousseau's conception of the Noble Savage. Biblically reminded that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," assured by anthropologists that Homo sapiens is descended from a killer ape, shocked by recent accounts...
Overseas, the Northrop revelations were greeted largely by an everybody-does-it yawn. Said one French official: "That American false puritanism makes Americans really think everything is pure in business. Clearly, oil, arms, electronics and telecommunications deals are usually fertilized a bit." The use of agents and consultants is not peculiar to Northrop. Khashoggi has represented Lockheed, Raytheon and Chrysler, and General Stehlin is still listed by Hughes Aircraft as a consultant...
...sudden death in 1973, American Choreographer Glen Tetley was appointed his successor. An iconoclast of the dance, Tetley, 49, raises conservative eyebrows high with his infusion of modern dance idioms into ballet. Again, unlike Cranko, he has always been known for relatively small dance pieces that concentrate on pure movement. He had never created an evening's length ballet. Some doubted that he ever could...
...relationship with his father. In a space hardly larger than a Pooh book, he has, in fact, unobtrusively condensed a mini-memoir, a portrait of A.A. Milne, a bittersweet study of a literary celebrity in the '20s and something very like an annotated Winnie-the-Pooh. It is pure HUNNY all the way to the bottom...
While DuBois had an instinctive reaction against the lily-white composition of Harvard, the distinguished academic community seems to have appealed to him. In his autobiography, Dusk of Dawn, he recalled with fondness discussions of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason with George Santayana, and invitations to the house of William James, a personal friend...