Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...majority and the Democrats were almost as happy at the thought of the party sniping which was to be their pleasure & privilege. Neither party was ready to start the partisan fighting. The result was a ponderous and overwhelming spectacle. No man is ever as lofty, as noble, as pure of soul and mellifluous of voice as a Congressman being polite, and last week they were polite en masse. The bowing, beaming and yielding to interruption was worthy of a light quadrille...
...only expedient for left wing groups interested in their future. For no matter what the background of our difficulties with the Soviets, the mere presence of friction on the international scene will force voters on the large scale to shy from groups with Communist backing. This is the pure pragmatic approach. It skirts the ethics and polities involved in current affairs and comes up with the only clear truth in a foggy picture--that Communists are unpopular in this country. Thus, if the organization is young (the AVC), or anxious to win votes in a real national election (the fledgling...
...land of opportunity for his art, but when the hopeful 13-year-old stepped off the boat, Manhattan's teeming garment district swiftly swallowed him up. It took him seven years to get as far as art school. Since then he has gone all the way from pure abstractionism to meticulous realism (and most of the way back again). His theory: "Each painting should stand by itself, not only as to subject matter but also technically. Variety is the basis of all living force...
...Even in pure musicomedy terms, Beggar's Holiday has as many ups & downs as an elevator. But when it forgets that John Gay ever lived, and the mixed white and Negro cast sings and stomps to Duke Ellington's rhythmic tunes, Beggar's Holiday has real high spirits and character...
Poor thing, they said, she died only last year, young and far from home, carried off by the yellow fever in French Haiti. Lydia Bailey, late of Philadelphia, looked as pure and demure in her portrait (by Gilbert Stuart, of course) as only a heroine in a historical novel can look. Handsome young Albion Hamlin stared at the portrait, shivered, felt "something intimate and personal" catch at his throat. The time: 1800-05. The range: post-Revolutionary U.S., the troubled Haiti of Toussaint L'Ouverture, North Africa at the time of the Barbary Wars...