Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some SDI was a bargaining chip for getting real agreements; for others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles...
Just as the ceremony is about to take place, however, Sir Robert is mysteriously murdered by other means. An Inspector Harris appears to solve the case, and the ensuing chaos is pure Python bliss. The secrets of the Charles family are both surprising and hilarious, but this reviewer isn't telling anything...
...apparently graduate from Harvard every year have not put forth a similar effort into recruiting their own kind. Introverts don't recruit anybody because introverts don't care about other introverts whereas extroverts seek out other extroverts and generally tolerate introverts. Harvard puts up with a few hundred "pure academic students" every year to ensure that those who lock themselves up in their little libraries or laboratories and eventually do make a contribution to mankind through a lifetime of uninterrupted self-application can make all of us at Harvard look good, just as a Harvard championship team makes even senior...
...like inventing because, to me, it's the most pure thing you can do," says the soft-spoken lecturer, who claims to be a bit of a perfectionist...
...Naipaul's nonfiction (Among the Believers; India: A Wounded Civilization) more closely than that of his other nine novels, including Guerrillas and A Bend in the River. Whether The Enigma of Arrival is literally true or an invention does not particularly matter. But readers who expect a work of pure narrative are in for a surprise...