Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dissenters. By no means all scientists supported the May bill. Some, fed up with Army bureaucracy, asked in vain for further hearings on the bill. Some thought that the current concepts of control ignored the real nature of pure research. Said one such doubter: "A lot of nuclear research is done with a brain, a pencil and a piece of paper. How can you control that...
Weekend at the Waldorf (MGM) is Grand Hotel in modern dress. Hollywood has already earmarked it "pure box office," a term meaning that no matter what happens on the screen, the star-spangled cast is a cinch to make money. This is a very fortunate circumstance for MGM, since what does happen on the screen is not likely to hold anyone spellbound for the two hours and seven minutes that the film lasts...
...Dramatic Art; a drama school rivaling Yale's and Carnegie Tech's; an outstanding university press; and Howard Odum's famed Institute for Research in Social Science. Not all his battles have been victories, A conspicuous defeat: his fight to make U.S. college football a simon-pure amateur game...
...Guatemalan folk themes, spearheading the racial art movement which revolutionized Latin American painting. Later he went abstract, tried to paint a kind of visual music which would be empty of pictorial meaning, but beautifully composed and rich in color harmonies. In 1937 Mérida got tired of pure abstractionism, and began combining it with vaguely recognizable shapes. Some critics now think The Big Three of Latin American art (Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros) is really a foursome...
Wright said he got his basic idea from Assyrian ziggurats (pyramidal temples with outside ramps ascending spirally). Eventually he decided that "the ziggurat is pessimistic," because it is pyramidal, so he turned it upside down to get his own building. Pointing to his model, he said triumphantly: "This is pure optimism...