Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank Fay takes a vacation from musical comedy and variety to play Elwood with a quiet, wistful humor that in pure delight. If you've ever wondered whether Fay could do anything well but those wry and funny commentaries on song lyrics, here's your answer. Elwood is a gentle, vague soul who says he tried being smart for forty years and then took a crack at being pleasant, and he advises pleasant. Fay achieves a casual distinction that you would not be likely to expect from a vaudevillian...
...Banyuls house, and when plaster became scarce he sent his son to ask the neighborhood dentists for more. In leisure moments, the old man listened to music. Few modern artists have evoked such critical acclaim. Wrote Britain's Augustus John: "We can never tire of a style so pure . . . have enough of a vision so consummate. ..." Highest praise of all came from Auguste Rodin, who said of Maillol's little Leda: "In all modern sculpture I do not know of a piece which is as absolutely beautiful, as absolutely pure, as absolutely a masterpiece. . . . What an artist...
...school to join Hlaka's guerrilla band on the Mountain. The Land is presumably Greece but it might be any land fighting for its liberty. The men of the Mountain are not individuals but figures from a poetic legend. Otherwise Irish Lord Dunsany's latest invention is pure adventure story...
...Irish, in Manx estimation, were scapegoats pure: "Hit him again; he's Irish...
...once what they would do with their new wealth, which would make the A.C.S. the first scientific society ever to become a large property owner. Tentatively, the group planned to continue Universal's industrial oil research and spend its $1,000,000 income for university studies in pure science related to petroleum...