Word: purist
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...General Motors Corp., this gruff Scot roared: "I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides-I am not a purist in these matters...
...proof of the years he has devoted to the study of Beethoven. Peak performance last week was the abused Appassionata, a flawless realization of the composer at his stormiest which had all the more meaning because it never went wild. Because encores destroy the balance of his programs, this purist refuses to play them, just as he refuses to waste his time on frothy, mediocre music. Most pianists would be vastly impressed by such unanimous acclaim as his playing has received lately. But last week Schnabel was skeptical, saying, "I am not sure that it's good...
...Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection of her own including a chest (set of six) of viols, one of which was owned by Handel. A thoroughgoing purist in restoring instruments, she also makes reproductions, would like nothing better than to see oldtime, easily playable instruments placed in a widespread number of homes...
...avalanche over western Berlin, beating up Jews, daubing Jewish shops, slugging Jews' women. Beside each squad of Storm Troops rumbled a car bristling with Count Wolf von Helldorf's police to arrest Jews or others who resisted. Announced the Messiah of Nazi Jew-baiting, famed Race-Purist Julius Streicher: "I myself will head the drive to purge Berlin of all Jews and segregate them in ghettos...
Would not Purist Mac have been more pure, less "solecistic," even at the risk of being somewhat didactic, or even pedantic, had he said, ''Such errors in grammar are inexcusable...