Word: purer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...published by New Directions in Norfolk, Conn., and Twice A Year, a Semi-Annual Journal of Literature, The Arts and Civil Liberties, published by Twice A Year in Manhattan. Each is a subsidized enterprise, each is edited by its own patron, and each claims a more independent policy, a purer concern with pure literature, than professional publishing can show. Readers in the autumn of 1939 could look to them for such nonconformist stuff as The Dial and The Little Review used to print in the years before Depression...
...noted actor went on to discuss the difference between the stage and radio from a thespian's standpoint. Pointing out that broadcasting makes for a purer art of the theatre, he continued, "Whereas the reactions of an audience may make or break a show on the stage, only comedians must have an active audience on the air. My weekly broadcasts are given without onlookers, for then I can re-enact a drama for its own sake. If people want to applaud, let them do so in their homes...
...effects, can make their gigantic instruments do everything but prance up & down the aisles. Some organists love to put a modern organ through its tricks; others sigh for the good old days when an organ was just an organ, point nostalgically to the fact that 18th-Century organs had purer tones, breathed gently instead of booming and gurgling...
...Programs, Inc. had played to over 500,000 children, had started a new season during which five companies, performing operas, ballets and plays, are expected to reach nearly 1,000,000 more youngsters in 29 States and Canada. Junior Programs thinks that proves there is a big place for purer piping...
...been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn't learn English until he was nine; and then he learned it "by ear". He knew the music of the language long before he knew its construction. Personally, I've never heard anyone speak purer English...