Word: purist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favor with the White House for appointing special counsels four times to investigate Administration scandals. The Clinton team let her dangle for weeks before deciding to keep her as Attorney General. Now her enemies say she is trying to regain favor. Friends say she's a principled legal purist. Just about everybody says that, for better or worse, she's blind to appearances. What she fails to see is that public confidence requires an investigation conducted well beyond White House reach...
...purist, she drinks her soy straight...
...program, was still a startling break with the Symphony's staid tradition. The concert in general drew much disapproval from the audience. "This is what happens when John Williams conducts the Symphony," grumbled one woman afterwards, undoubtedly voicing the thoughts of many other patrons. Perhaps it is the purist in all of us that goes to Symphony Hall with a strict set of ideas, and perhaps it is because of these ideas that this kind of performance fails to realize our ideal of an authentic concert experience...
...outside narrator. That narrator "doesn't see hardly any of it because I don't want to be wrong." But he admits, "even then you make a mistake." Describing a time when he placed a ceremony outdoors instead of inside a hogan, he approaches it philosophically, accepting the purist's criticism...
...Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn, yet often restraining themselves from such performances out of (often sanctimonious) respect for "authenticity." A musician in the most untarnished sense, Ms. Robison aims to paint the liveliest and most colorful musical experience possible with as many wideranging techniques available, seemingly saying, "Oh phooey" to purist stalwarts. In a mildly Machiavellian rebellion, Ms. Robison boldly asserts that the ends of creating the most tonally brilliant and resonant music possible are well worth the means of a little historical fibbing and instrumental miscegnation...