Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill was a true seeker after knowledge. His burning power of pure rationalization often startled a listener out of his skin. He never posed or preached. But he seemed to invite the tormenting ridicule of many who could not understand him, and he was sensitive. Had conditions been different, the contemporary world might have been a gainer...
First objective of the new strategy was Sidor. U.S. forces swarmed ashore in a surprise landing on Jan. 2, while Aussies fought down the steaming Ramu Valley, in the rear of the enemy, toward Madang. The next move, and every one thereafter, was to be a leapfrog pure and simple...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...
Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea-the alchemy by which a phoney hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism...
...over WMEX devoted to Louie, Bix, NORK, as well as moderns such as Hodes, Ed Hall, and Lester Young. And every evening except Sunday Warren Saunders produces "Jump Time" over WCOP at 10 o'clock. The music is apt at times to stray a little afield, but generally speaking pure improvisation predominates. Collectors are invited to come up to the station Tuesday evenings and put on a program featuring their own favorite; any Harvard men interested in participating in this manner are urged to contact the writer for further information. For those of you who are blessed with powerful radios...