Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EXTREME, ACROSS-THE-BOARD actions are basically un-workable. It's tempting to call for a return to blissful, pristine and pure amateurism, you'd just cut off gobs of TV dollars available today. But just try to tell that to Penn State or Southern Cal. It's impossible. The system's too lucrative...
...young woman with a small monkey perched on her left shoulder paraded among the patrons in dinner jackets and evening gowns, eliciting some sidelong glances but not much else. Throughout a performance of Lohengrin, two women in the audience held hands and caressed one another while onstage the pure knight sang of his love for the chaste Elsa. At the climax of Tristan und Isolde, one bejeweled lady was so overcome by the intoxicating music that she pitched backward into the laps of the unflappable listeners behind her. Richard Wagner, who caused all the excitement, rested peacefully in his grave...
...supposedly fake Reaganites around the Oval Office who are blamed by the right wing for diluting the pure, potent philosophies of Candidate Reagan. "Reagan has clearly changed," Viguerie says. "You just see him moving off to the left on issue after issue. The people who are doing this [to him] are basically Eastern Big Business Republicans." The main liberalizing Rasputin: White House Chief of Staff James Baker. His Texas origins do not make up for his Princeton education, and even worse is his management of two presidential campaigns, Gerald Ford's in 1976 and Vice President George Bush...
Kahn seeks to project a lofty vision in which high tech creates pure information that experts like himself analyze and turn into policy options. He speaks the language of government and business. The objects of his criticism are frequently dead horses: the romantic rebels of the '60s and the insular faddists of the '70s. He applauds Reaganomics but doubts that the present Administration has the technical skills to fulfill its ideology...
...this is pure tokenism. Bok generally epitomizes University and College administration which seems to pride itself on maintaining a vast distance from undergraduates. The motivations range from that of a Bok, a genuinely private person whose legal training prompts him to avoid situations for which he is not formally prepared, to that of other bureaucrats who simply don't think they need to talk to students to do their job well...