Word: purely
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...Hellenic elements, but also Gothic. It takes up parts of these traditions and discards others. The classical Renaissance did not simply resurrect the Ancients in their old form. Gibbon dressed his Romans and his Christians as neo-classicists, and while Hellenism dominated the synthesis, it did not emerge pure. Consequently, it hardly seems likely that the impending transformation will be accomplished with a religion designed for the Hellenic Babel...
Only Jupiter. At 1:07 Friday afternoon a pure-white missile, its bottom spitting flame, soared into the blue sky. "Well, I'll tell you," one woman said disappointedly, "that wasn't the big one. I'm sure of that." She was right; it was only the Army's Jupiter, designed to carry a nuclear warhead a mere 1,500 miles...
...after day the changes continued. At last Benoit and Leroy decided that they had new-style ducks that do not resemble their Pekin parents or the Khaki-Campbells from whose genitals their DNA had been taken-or even a hybrid between the two. Their feathers are soft and pure white instead of rough and creamy white, as in Pekin ducks. Their necks are set at a different angle, and their temperaments are placid instead of scrappy. Jesuit Leroy reports: "I didn't sleep for nights after we discovered the changes. It is wonderful to be close to the workings...
Ever since the British burned Joan of Arc. martyrdom by foreigners has been pure glory for a Frenchman. Hard-pressed by critics of his Algerian policy and urgently in need of tax funds to plug his cracking war economy. France's Premier Guy Mollet last week chose to risk glorious extinction, at the stake of the U.N. Security Council rather than be buried in the ignominy of domestic issues...
...rambunctious style. A Neanderthal Republican whose father was Teddy Roosevelt's secretary, Oyster Bay-born Bill Loeb, 51, insists that, the G.O.P. is riddled with Communists, in 1952 was one of the few of any party to endorse the late Bertie McCormick's proposal for a simon-pure "American Party." Spry, restless Loeb brags that the Union Leader will print any letter it receives, pointed out a recent Page One example from a student: "Mr. Loeb, you are a goddamn reactionary...