Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a simon-pure Communist campaign run from the top. The statements and tactics of Communist Leader Harry Pollitt, the Daily Worker and others make this clear enough...
This is the Harvard whose president argues the necessity for social scientists to dissect American institutions "as fearlessly as the geologist examines the origin of rocks," who knows the merit of "pure" science and thought but decries the pointless "thrashing over old straw" which often passes for scholarship...
...Once in a hotel in Birmingham, he told a Negro maid that his dummy keyboard (for limbering up between concerts) was a holy piano whose music could be heard only by the pure and sinless. Then he ran off a long, soundless glissando. When he looked up, the maid had disappeared...
...literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train Soviet youth in a high feeling of patriotism...
...dummy to split the cocklebur vote for the opposing faction; but Willie didn't know this. Willie thought the Lord was calling him to save the state and so did his wife, Lucy, who had been a schoolteacher and didn't favor drinking. Willie was pure and believed in his backers. He believed in the people, who repaid his faith by dozing through his well-reasoned speeches. Then Willie found out that he had been a sap and a sucker...