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...ever fought. Like the Viet Nam War, it will certainly last a minimum of ten to 15 years. War with China is bound to cost us 60 million souls at the very least and, as always in wars, they will be the very best souls-all our finest and purest people are bound to perish there. After this war, the Russian people will virtually cease to exist on this planet...
...Solzhenitsyn exemplifies the purest and finest spirit of Russia, and it is that essence that I have always loved...
...beyond the notion that the class and status of a composer affects the music he writes. Social conditions obviously govern any artist's work, but in instrumental music it isn't always' clear that the finished product conveys any more than abstract emotion to the listener. Music is the purest form of art. When the writers of the late 19th century Aesthetic movement wished to avoid the moral questions posed by their own art they tried to imitate the social indifference of music. In a concert hall, on a record, even over a loudspeaker in a supermarket, music works...
...censors and our civil libertarians has become a national pastime. Little does it matter what works are in dispute; the issues remain remarkably constant. Indeed, over the decades, the questions have become even more refined--or crude, if you prefer--and are now beginning to be asked in their purest forms: it's a lot clearer what's in dispute over Deep Throat than in Ulysses or Lady Chatterly's Lover half a century...
Environmentalists point to the development of solar power or geothermal power as the purest energy sources. But consumed in the tremendous amounts that are projected, even these sources may have detrimental environmental effects, because of the amount of land area needed or the imbalance created in geological systems...