Word: purely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...INCAS TO INDIOS, by Werner Bischof, Robert Frank and Pierre Verger (77 pp.; Universe; $ 10), and THE ANDES, by Claude Arthaud and François Hébert-Stevens (185 pp.; Vanguard; $12.50), contain some of the year's best photographs. Peru and the Andes generally run to pure drama, in nature as in man. A child, an old woman, a street scene become as majestic in the work of these cameramen as the towering mountains...
...tempo and tone, partly from the operetta medium itself. What is most inspired and Voltairian about Candide must plague operetta writing. Voltaire's book is much better suited to a film, which could approximate the breakneck pace and have a field day with the calamities; or to pure opera, which wholly through music could catch the book's speed, glancing wit and mocking elan...
...voice followed me, humbly and at a distance like a spaniel. "Monique, why did you skip class? We were studying the Critique of Pure Reason. It was interesting, but I think Kant offers a false dichotomy. The only viable solution is to provide a synthesis in which experience is impregnated with rationality and reason is ordained to empirical data...
...proven wells farther south. Texas Co. wanted to find out how far the Aneth field went and whether the two pools might be connected. Though Texas Co. tried to keep the well secret, every oilman suspected that something big was happening. At the first sale a combine of Pure Oil Co., Ohio Oil Co. and Sun Oil Co. bid $7,941,000 for a nearby 2,500-acre lease, nearly $3,200 an acre and $2,500 more than Navajo land had ever brought before...
...absurdity, it has been pointed out, is that she shares the apocalyptic vision of the Old Testament prophets with their incandescent fervor and their rare and terrible purity. Simone Weil embarrasses, as a saint embarrasses, by her childlike refusal to deviate from her personal vision of the pure, the good, and the godly, wherever they might lead. "It's a lucky thing for all of us," a friend once told her, "that...