Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want any undesirable people coming into this neighborhood," he replied: "Neither do I. If I see anybody undesirable coming in here, I'll be the first to complain.") Though polished and well-mannered, he has a flair for the astringent crack. When critics complained that he had deserted pure jazz for sentimental corn, he said: "Critics don't buy records-they get 'em free." He dubbed Bandleader Lawrence Welk "a musical Ed Sullivan...
Silverstein has been careful to elicit from the refined men in the play aptly elegant deportment and diction. They show a delightful preciosity by pronouncing with a pure s-sound instead of an sh-sound all such words as "appreciate," "profession," "politicians" and "demonstration." And even the word "exquisite" is correctly accented on the first syllable...
...years in its attempt to make certain that those loyal to a foreign power cannot create another Trojan horse here." The U.S. Constitution, said Wyman, had been "tortured out of all rational historical proportion" in recent Supreme Court decisions, and the language of the Sweezy opinion itself was "pure sophistry...
...Blasphemies; a dismal Picture and Emblem of Hell. Satan seems to take a strange possession of it." But Bronson Alcott later observed: "There is a city in our world upon which the light of the sun of righteousness has risen. It is the same city from which every pure stream of thought and purpose and performance emanates. It is the city which is set on high. It cannot be hidden. It is Boston...
...introduced by last year's Award-winner, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, who said that we should not worry too much about the meaning of cummings' poems, that "a poem is apprehended in the ear." He termed cummings "one of the few pure lyric voices of our time." It is true that cummings reads very musically and slowly, relishing every syllable whether it means anything or not. The best impression was made by his poem "Thanksgiving: 1956," in which he denounced the official apathy of our government during the Hungarian crisis. Still, cummings is far from being...