Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frontier. "There is a huge public demand for medical research. The amount of money, new buildings, equipment, and staff now devoted to it is staggering . . . The causes, as so often in the U.S., are partly ruthlessly practical and in part pure idealism. On the practical side, the public is moved by an old instinct-fear: fear of death. Although many Americans still adhere to a traditional religion, many have lost its comforts. They are scared of the thought of their end, and look to medicine to save them...
...dressed," writes Fleur, "as millions of American women would like to be dressed. The only giveaway was the orchid in her lapel [see cut]. No real flower that, but one of diamonds, larger even than an orchid, about five inches across by seven inches high-a brooch of big, pure white diamonds that must have been worth $250,000. Barrel earclips of diamond baguettes and her ball-like diamond ring were minor accessories by contrast...
...better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves "to play on the stage"-and has found that she can at the Met-she made Susanna a maid any Figaro would fall...
...story, titled in English, Women Are Like That, is pure meringue. An old cynic named Don Alfonso bets two naive young friends that their fiancées, "the firmest of characters," can be cozened into being untrue. Sure enough, the young blades disguise themselves and, ably abetted by the old cynic and the masquerading ladies' maid, Despina, win each other's sweethearts. The gentlemen's bittersweet despair lasts just long enough to round out an opera, and everybody ends up in the right arms...
...Gesell, only an uncommonly striking and abrupt phase of this continuous development. And he includes mental growth along with physical growth. "It is probable," he writes, "that all mental life has a motor basis and a motor origin. The non-mystical mind [i.e., the mind when not engaged in pure reverie] must always take hold. Even in the rarefied realms of conceptual reasoning we speak of intellectual grasp . . . Thinking might be defined as a comprehension and manipulation of meanings. Accordingly, thought has its beginnings in infancy...