Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...form of a young reporter from Copper City, Arizona. Mitchell Hickok whose ambition is simply to report accurately on the life of his home town. Hickok is persuaded to put some of his stories together to form the book "Home Town." This young man is then brought in his pure innocence to New York to help sell his book. But when he speaks to women's clubs or on radio shows, he just tells stories about his town or the west--everyone is amazed that there is an author who doesn't like to talk about his own book...
There is, however, no way Mr. Amory can keep his overdrawn satire from wearing thin near the end. By the middle of the book, he has proved that Mitch Hickok is simple, pure, and good, and that Bill Devereux is cynical, illiterate, and evil. Since the rest of the book merely repeats this, the humor gets repetitious and loses its sharpness...
...matter how pure or kindly the motive," Connecticut Judge John A. Cornell instructed the jury, "the law does not justify one person's taking the life of another to save that other from suffering . . . even if the killing be done at the request of the person killed." In short, said the judge, there is no such thing as legal mercy killing...
...These three characters are drawn in an attempt at literal likeness that the best technique of animation never brings off without a certain stiffness. Nonetheless, the spell is never broken. The rest of the human characters, including the sourpuss stepsisters, move flexibly in delightful caricature, and the animals are pure Disney...
Ramsey said: "All work on explosive utilization of atomic forces involves government supervision and secrecy. We don't want any of that here, so we are doing pure research on the behavior of the fundamental particles of nature." This is in accordance with the University's policy of not accepting "classified" projects if they require federal supervision...