Word: purist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cajun jam session in the front room of the music store he has operated since 1966 in Eunice, a small town (pop. 11,000) northwest of Lafayette. A master craftsman who builds 75 to 100 accordions a year, some of them costing up to $1,400, Savoy is a purist who prefers French to English, forbids amplification at his jam sessions and plasters the walls of his workshop with chauvinistic folk homilies ("Some Cajuns are turning their back on a hot bowl of gumbo for a cold, tasteless American...
...look at the case of X, a recent graduate student here at Harvard, who had been doing some theoretical work that deviated from the norm and in the process had ruffled some departmental feathers. X, a purist who was convinced that good work was all that was needed to triumph was neither very diplomatic nor politically savvy and not overly concerned with massaging egos...
...happen to be more impressed with Harvard's defense last weekend against Cornell than I am with its 39, 23 and 27-point outputs in games one, two and three. I also consider myself a purist in most things, but if my beloved Braves were to win a World Series in which new records for fielding errors and strikeouts were set, would I care the less...
...always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination of musical precision with his discordant vocal impromptus characterized much of Gould's personality; his music reflected a purist's sensitivity to rhythm, tone and order, while his words and actions remained erratic and undecipherable. A recluse who eventually gave up live performances, he soon found other means of communication through his writing, recordings and radio shows. Director Francois Girard transposes Gould's many contradictions into another medium...
...always did on the stage and in the recording studio. Throughout his search for technical perfection, he hummed along audibly and slightly off-key. In many ways the odd combination of musical precision with his discordant vocal impromptus characterized much of Gould's personality: his music reflected a purist's sensitivity to rhythm, tone and order, while his words and actions remained erratic and undecipherable. A recluse who eventually gave up live performances, he soon found other means of communication through his writing, recordings, and radio shows. Director Francois Girard transposes Gould's contradictions into another medium in his film...