Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...answer to Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick's statement [TIME, Feb. 3] that "audiences used to be largely . . . cranks who also liked folk dancing because it was pure and sexless," I step forward boldly to defend the thousands of folk dancers both men & women in the U.S. Lusty, earthy, folk dancing is as "pure" an expression of the people's simple joys as the "pure" tone Mr. Kirkpatrick clanks out of his antiquated instrument. ... If anything can be charged with the character of sexlessness, it is certainly the harpsichord, whose voice is hard and chill, and rather exemplifies suppressed desires...
...alluring smell is the musk deer's undoing. For centuries, through the rhododendrons in the cool Himalayan foothills where he lives, the male musk deer has been relentlessly chased by hunters. Unfortunately for him, the musk deer has a scent gland that contains a sex lure. In its pure form, musk is worth $40,000 a pound to perfume manufacturers...
Folk Songs and Ballads (Susan Reed, with zither and Irish harp; Victor, 6 sides). Twenty-year-old Susie's voice is sweet, her diction pure and her zither a little flat. A big attraction in Greenwich Village, her ways may be too sophisticated and stylized for plain folks. Performance: good...
From this point on, The Tower of Babel becomes a ghastly sequence of horrors- or, as some may see it, a small-scale presentation of the fate of pure intellect in the clutches of today's harsh world. Slowly, inexorably, the new Mrs. Kien invades her hapless husband's ivory tower, teams up with the brutal janitor of the building to throw Kien out and sell his priceless library. Half-crazy, half-beaten to a pulp by his elephantine wife, Kien runs out into the streets-of which he is as ignorant as a babe-and takes shelter...
Made in U.S.A. Like barbed wire and bifocal eyeglasses, this brand of humor is a U.S. invention. It is as pure an expression of Yankee or backwoods genius as the coonskin cap and the basswood spittoon. The latest to work it over is Tennessee-born James R. Aswell, who has dug out about 100 items (including the above, by Tennessee's George W. Harris about 1845) from old books, newspapers and magazines...