Word: purer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most pressing problem, a chronic shortage of revenue, could be solved only by new taxes. (New Jersey and Nebraska are the only two states in the Union that do not levy statewide taxes on income or retail sales.) Nor did the candidates electrify the populace with pleas for purer water, cleaner air, faster transit facilities...
Reader complaints about movie ads were a principal reason for the Times's purer code. "We are convinced that moral and social values have not decayed as frequently portrayed," Reimer told advertisers, "and we trust that together we can find a better standard of values in the area of 'good taste...
...observed Dictator Benito Mussolini. Combining themes, he carved out a lesser heroism: his sculptures show stumbling horses and fearful men. In this show are some of the sculptures, but twelve lithographs, paired with his wife's poetry, and ten oils on paper show a purer image of horse and rider charging, falling, rising again with more courage than their predecessors. Through April...
...squares almost invisible to the eye. Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg. Over a three-year period, the egg forms grow more nebulous, less sensual, purer...
...bland mix of broad harmonies, familiar tunes, corny humor and just enough of the folk music spirit to cash in on the most avid adult record buyer-the man whose ear has been tuned by popular music but whose developing tastes lead him to folk music. Where the purer folk singers such as Joan Baez and Pete Seeger alienate some audiences with their austerity, the impure Christys, like the Kingston Trio, win them with the warm good cheer that makes everybody at least a vicarious minstrel...