Word: pureness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...achieved so much success in so little time because sports represent the last bastion of pure excellence in our leveling, democratic society. Only in sports does sheer talent and desire determine the outcome. Athletes are the only persons left in America judged, praised, and blamed strictly on their actions and their ability, not their race, sex, class, or any other such nonsense from the smorgasbord of identity...
...achievement, standards that are relaxed for no one and no group. CSN has caught fire at the ratings box because it replays the few special moments in sports when athletes do not meet standards, but set new standards. It recalls what humans can achieve when they strive for pure and uncorrupted excellence. This is the essence of sports and why Americans so love sports...
However, there are ways to offset the cost of bottled water. "It's much cheaper to just buy one bottle, and then keep refilling it," asserts Jackson. She refills her brand-name bottle with Cambridge water, even though it isn't as pure as the original product...
...Whereas some of us are good at science, I wouldn't claim to be sufficiently expert at politics to foresee what will happen [in response to the NSB's working paper]," says Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics Paul C. Martin '52, who is also Dean of the Division of Applied Science...
DIED. RICHARD CASSILLY, 70, American tenor and operatic star of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s; of a cerebral hemorrhage. A pure heldentenor, Cassilly possessed a booming, heroic voice that ideally suited grand Wagnerian roles. Debuting at New York City's Metropolitan Opera in 1970, he sang in more than 100 performances there...