Word: purely
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Early drafts of the act were specifically pro-Christian. Ultimately, however, its argument was stated in pure civil-libertarian terms: prayers that would be coercive if required of all students during class are protected free speech if they are just one more after-school activity. Nevertheless, recalls Marc Stern, a staff lawyer with the American Jewish Congress, "there was great fear that this would serve as the base for very intrusive and aggressive proselytizing." Accordingly, Stern's group and other organizations challenged the law--only to see it sustained, 8 to 1, by the Supreme Court in 1990. Bill Clinton...
...finds the "Lounge," an opium den-style lounge christened by an initial misspelling. Nothing like blue lights, Oriental rugs and the right music to set the mood. Amidst rumbles of reggae, folk and rap, the self-proclaimed "official music of the Co-op" is not the Dead, but pure funk. The Lounge also has its own band, whose members happen to be away for the semester. Several of the rooms house guitars and other instruments, and a variety of art decorates the walls of the building: modern paintings, a bright totem pole, even a questionable headless cupid...
...every fashion plate knows, show provide an arena in which the pure design of clothing receives life through the theatre of presentation. After a decade of subdued shows from "designer minimalists" such as Calvin Klein and Donna Karan, the world of fashion is welcoming back playfulness and drama with open arms, thanks to current wunderkids John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Wisely, theatricality was the focus of "The Return of Persephone," senior Louis E. Monoyudis's fashion extravaganza. Even those uninterested in fashion--the majority of the audience--got treated to a spectacle, for "Persephone" was less a creation of fashion...
...rebellion is under way. It is not as sweeping as the creationists' jihad against Darwin, but it is also far more focused: what is under attack here is not a vast theory with admitted gaps but a specific experiment on a specific piece of cloth--an apparently pure application of the scientific method that the West has taken for granted since the days of the Enlightenment...
Each time Jerry brings black militants and white supremacists together on stage, its anybody's guess as to what will happen. Those with any capacity for rational thought will guess that violence will ensue. And indeed it does. In addition to the pure joy of watching a scrawny Caucasian adorned in swastikas getting his ass kicked, these broad-casts also get you thinking about ancient Near Eastern history. At least once during every appearance by the Klan, Jerry is assigned sole responsibility for the death of Christ. All in all, I think we can agree that Jerry's doing...