Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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One cannot but admire Mr. Schlesinger's long-suffering efforts to purge the State Department of jargon. And yet one wonders if his attitude is not indicative of something more than concern about style. A case in point is his memorandum to the Secretariat to the effect that those who...
The Last Ism. Soviet critics, too, were soon after Chagall's hide, dubbing his misbegotten revolution in art a "mystic and formalistic bacchanal." But the purge came from the quarter he least expected. He had hired two painters, Malevich and Lissitzky, members of the suprematist school of painting, to...
The conservative Defense Minister wanted to investigate Aspida's leftists further, but Premier Papandreou said no. Instead, he named two colonels from the K.Y.P. to purge right-wing army leadership, which he indicated he suspected of plotting a coup against him. Garoufalias crisply refused to take his orders from...
Kuwait, that Connecticut-sized sandspit at the head of the Persian Gulf, controls one-quarter of the world's petroleum, collects $600 million in oil royalties annually and boasts a greater per capita income for its 468,000 people-$3,000 a year-than the U.S. Yet Kuwait'...
Il Purgatorio, the most complex and psychological of the canticles, is an allegory of a process the church calls conversion and the psychoanalysts individuation. Purgatory, as Dante conceives it, is formed in the shape of a mountain. Around the mountain, like a mighty serpent, winds a path that spirals upward...