Word: purely
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Both Winthrop members emphasize the intellectual approach they take to business consulting as well as their teaching efforts in executive education and training. Responding to criticisms from "a few" historians that their work is not as intellectually important as pure academia, Kantrow says the career choice is not that black and white...
...described himself as "a thin, curly little person, smoking too (many) cigarettes, with a crocked lung," and shrugged off his mysterious illness as his destiny: "A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities." He stressed his dedication to a pure but unrewarding craft: "Poetry wouldn't keep a goldfinch alive." And he professed to be above the battle to support himself. "There is no necessity for the artist to do anything," he lectured her. "He is a law unto himself...
...maybe just smiled, but the kind of smile with no social consequence. The kind that doesn't care if anyone sees the imaginary upturned lips--that exists as an inward show of pure happiness...
Closer to our own time, Hitler and the Nazis had their own vision of a natural order. They set down in rigidly narrow terms a code which prescribed who would be considered "racially pure" and who were to be classified as "impure." As we all know, this led to the mass extermination of eastern European Jews, racial minorities, Jehovahs Witnesses and others who did not conform to the state's concept of justice. What is often forgotten, however, is that gays were similarly listed among the ranks of the "impure" and tens of thousands also perished in the gas chambers...
...beleaguered Waldheim rejected the allegations as "pure lies and malicious acts." He later admitted, however, that he was aware of German reprisals against the partisans: "Yes, I knew. I was horrified. But what could I do? I had either to continue to serve or be executed." He said he never fired a shot or even saw a partisan. Indeed, his immediate superior at the time, former Lieut. Colonel Herbert Warnstorff, said last week that Waldheim "remained confined to a desk" during his tour. As for the medal he received, military historians support Waldheim's contention that it was given...