Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Synthetics. Eight of the vitamins are now produced by the chemical indus-try in pure form, identical with the plant or animal product...
...That's demagoguery pure and sim ple!" shouted Minnesota's young Senator Joe Ball. "You are not seriously trying to tell the committee that any large number of workers in the United States don't get enough...
...terms, nor to add further dimensions to space-time in order to account for them; it is to devise a mathematical treatment that will reveal their unity with the world of space, time, matter and energy. Schrödinger has found this in an "affine" geometry, which deals with pure concepts in their essence, not with measurement in the ordinary sense. He now claims to have "unified" gravitation with electromagnetic fields...
Eckstein recommends that the biggest possible soldiers be sent against the Japanese, in the most impressive possible mass. He warns against trying to use small men subtly, in the enemy's manner. He thinks that the talents born of Japanese smallness might be paralyzed by pure size and shock. But if Americans tried to beat them at their own game they would not only fail; they would also intensify Japanese scorn. On the whole, however, Eckstein is content to leave the winning of the war to warriors...
This hardly seems the right moment for a period musical, particularly one with so much book trouble. A bodacious, bawdacious leg show would be more in keeping with the times. In any case, "Away We Go" is an operetta, pure and simple, at its best, witty and charming, and at its worst, prime for a severe blue-pencilling. Not knowing Lynn Riggs' "Green Grow the Lilacs," the basis of the libretto, one cannot vouch for the faithfulness of the adaptation, only for its unevenness and absurdity...