Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blossom-perfumed, crescent-beached Rio, Inspector Carlos Santos of the police department's costume and amusement section called in the press. Ordered from on high to crack down on public lovemaking, the inspector outlined the new rules for kissing in the carnival capital of the world: "The pure kiss, what we call the official kiss, on the cheek or hand, will be permitted. But so-called 'American' kissing, which awakens other intentions and is shocking in public, will be suppressed...
...present state of the art, they say, there is no chance that even the most monstrous bomb will get out of control, set fire to the ocean's hydrogen and turn the earth into a short-lived star. The H-bomb's ingredients must be pure and carefully selected, but the ocean is a mess of many nonreactive elements. Less than one-ninth of it is hydrogen, and the safe kind of hydrogen at that...
...Banishing McCarthy to the inside of the paper . . . suspends the one rule on which a newspaper can be run. That is the pure act of news judgment. Men handling the news have to make the delicate decision each day as to which stories are important, which stories will be of paramount interest to their readers . . . When the man who runs a newspaper decides to 'play down' the news of any individual, he is fooling with the fiercest sort of fire ... In his news columns ... he must observe the single standard: Is it news? McCarthy is news, all over...
This kind of fare is varied with pure farce. In "The Woman in the Case," a double-bass player and an aristocratic beauty get acquainted after both have gone swimming and have had their clothes stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise...
Along with all the other things they like to say about the U.S., some Europeans insist that Americans have no sense of history. To Historian C. Vann Woodward of Johns Hopkins University, that notion is pure bunk. Says he, in the Johns Hopkins Magazine: Americans have such an exaggerated sense of history that they use it as a prop to explain or excuse every conceivable type of policy or position. The result: Americans can no longer "believe our own history...