Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip more than half over, Professor Wright thought it had been worth all the bother. "We can't teach the high art of the theater here," says he. "But there's plenty of time to teach the students Shaw and Shakespeare in school. This is show business, pure and simple, and from the bottom up." And he thought that he knew how to finish his doctor's thesis...
...filled out wrong, Miss"). Because the camera is stationary and the lighting natural, the scenes are crude by studio standards. But such disadvantages are more than compensated by what the audience sees and hears. Funt is a highly resourceful ad-libber, and his victims are life itself about as pure as the screen can ever catch...
carved In this pure stone; but sleeping, still
...TIME reader who raises pure bred Holsteins and Guernseys in Brockport, N.Y., writes: "I would like to hire a displaced person. There is just one major requirement: He must be a man who loves cattle. I will furnish the man with a house, electricity for all purposes except heat, such milk as he wishes to use, and I will pay him $100 a month...
...last phrase refers to the physical universe as seen from the coast range at Carmel, Calif. In the scale of this pure spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process...