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...loss of the shuttle was a more profound event than that suggests. It inflicted upon Americans the purest pain that they have collectively felt in years. It was a pain uncontaminated by the anger and hatred and hungering for revenge that come in the aftermath of terrorist killings, for example. It was pain uncomplicated by the divisions, political, racial, moral, that usually beset American tragedies (Viet Nam and Watergate, to name two). The shuttle crew, spectacularly democratic (male, female, black, white, Japanese American, Catholic, Jewish, Protestant), was the best of us, Americans thought, doing the best of things Americans...
...This shows that we are serving a need for the people in the community," he says. "It is continuing adult education in its purest sense. The students are not here to get credentials, but to get aneducation...
...actually attracted Grant to come and die in comfort there, a sort of publicity stunt. Grant went along with it. But as he enacted that odd humiliation, he was, in the privacy of his mind and on his lined note pad, composing his memoirs, one of the strongest and purest documents of American public life...
...loyalty to the President that made the thing go," says Meese, a thought that all three endorse. They loved the man, to put it in its purest terms. They would do almost anything to help him, and almost anything to avoid embarrassing him. Reagan did not want strife in this staff, so the troika worked about as hard at getting along with one another as they did on anything...
Depeche Mode rips the guts out of Modern Love, and the Modern Love Ballad, by distilling it into its purest form. With a voice oozing tenderness, Alan Wilder sings...