Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...march, first in Manchuria, then in China. Yamashita, who served a term in the War Office as Chief of the Military Affairs Division, began to talk Nazi-fashion. "War," he said, "is the mother of creation." Japan, he cried, was a have-not. Morals, he decreed, must be simon-pure...
...love and admire the United States and think of it as a land of the free where the small fellow has an equal chance, and it insults a friendly people and hurts their pride. As to the first part of the article, it is not only fantastic, it is pure invention. . . . May I ask you where you got that pro-Axis stuff? . . . I want to repeat to you once more that the Egyptian people have struggled very hard and toiled for a long time before securing the freedoms and liberties they now enjoy, and I assure you that they will...
They flew over the chaotic tragedies of a landscape which from that height was as unpeopled as if it were in a museum case: "All that I see is the bric-a-brac of another age exhibited under a pure crystal without tremor." Saint-Exupéry, in his mind, revisited strange depths of his childhood; and meditated upon death, defeat, victory, treachery...
...pilot who lay on the wing of his derelict ship, high in the air, in an infinite leisure between living and death. He realized how little of adventure there is in war, that war is the acceptance neither of duty nor of danger: "it is at certain moments the pure and simple acceptance of death." In some marvelously clear and compassionate writing on refugees, and on heartsick soldiers who threw in their cards, and on the cracked and frantic machineries of civil and military administration, he manages to tell more of the fall of his nation than any dozen books...
...center of great and steely pressures, at the intersection of scientific and poetic knowledge. Sometimes the pressure is too intense, producing mere conceits or wild generalizations. But usually he holds his stratospheric insights under complete and Gallic intellectual control. His perceptions are so sharp and deep, his language so pure, that most of Flight to Arras radiates poetry and a renewal of truth...