Word: purist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings he made from the late '30s onward incessantly allude. Cavallon's geometrical works, like one dated 1946, are not Utopias: there is little of Mondrian's austere, architectonic rectitude in them. They are sociable, warm, busy and a bit sloppy. They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale. But they do supply the underpinning on which nearly all Cavallon's later work is based-a firmly cubist structure, distantly suggestive of fields, porticoes or rooms, veiled in strong white light...
...Purist Approach. Carter's initial grace period with official Washington, if there ever was one, is unmistakably over. The special interests, to whom Carter insists he does not owe a thing, are zeroing in on the White House. Trade-offs and bargains, which Carter does not like, are beginning to be an unavoidable part of his life. "When you start putting forth legislation,"' the President will observe later in the day, "it's hard to say when you should deviate from the purist approach and how much deviation is too much...
...Congressman replied by criticizing the "intellectual arrogance, elitism" of some leftists and added, "It is much easier to be a purist...
...third party candidacy that could weaken the Democrat's showing enough to throw the election to Ford. It is a challenge to sanction this indulgent candidacy in an elction in which the American people face clear alternatives. While well-heeled liberals may be able to afford the cost of purist voting, they should consider the consequences of their action for the men and women who have spent the last eight years battling to protect their meager standard of living and oft-assaulted self-respect...
...zealous conservative supporters. "I don't know if all those emotional conventioneers are as interested in electing a President as they are in slaying a dragon," fretted a top Reagan aide. North Carolina's ultraconservative Senator Jesse Helms, who was not even a delegate, was one such purist who was off on his erratic own. He first proposed 22 platform planks on which he vowed to fight -until Reagan assigned two of his top advisers to work with Helms on just which planks were worth pushing. The Reaganites feared they might kill their chances if they forced...