Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your recent account (TIME, June 9) of the doings of the scholarly Institute for Propaganda Analysis, which was founded on the ivory tower principle of pure objectivity, you reported that the director, Dr. Clyde R. Miller, complained because his co-workers proved to be men of clay. "Everyone wants the other fellow's propaganda analyzed, but not his own," Dr. Miller is reported to have said. Then you added this apparently startling revelation: "Chief thing the row seemed to prove: every man is a propagandist, whether he knows...
...When one wants to remember a dictator in the pure classical meaning of the term," spouted Dictator Mussolini, "one cites Sulla. Well, Sulla seems to us a modest amateur compared to Delano Roosevelt...
...write impassioned letters to Senators and President Roosevelt demanding that they keep the U.S. out of war. He went to Washington this year to oppose the Lend-Lease Bill. Now in favor of U.S. arming for defense, he insists that to send troops to Europe would be "pure midsummer madness...
...there were more cogent reasons than pure diplomacy for including neutral nations in the order. This was clear from an SEC report to Congress earlier last week. After four years of study, SEC admitted it could not discover who controlled the American I. G. Chemical Corp. originally sponsored by I. G. Farbenindustrie, but since 1939 called General Aniline & Film (textiles, dyes, Agfa Ansco camera equipment). SEC revealed that the original U.S. directors of the firm, including Standard Oil of New Jersey's Walter Teagle, had no idea who controlled it either. The trail ended in Switzerland, where a number...
...hair, from Sulka)-has been the most readable in the U.S. Critic Thomson knows his stuff, and is entirely without self-consciousness in saying it. Instead of mumbling about dynamics, he reports: the orchestra "played loud." He announced firmly, of Composer Samuel Barber, that "his heart is pure." In café lingo he declared that a chorus sang "perfectly. But perfectly." He also twists the tails of Carnegie Hall's sacred cows. Thomson on Fiddler Jascha Heifetz...