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...laborers, and the practice created typically Western dilemmas over how to run the camp where both Indians and film crew lived. Should the rules of Western society or the laws of the jungle take precedence? Herzog's pursuit of authenticity raises many such questions, which only a true purist must face...
...came to Bryant Pond twelve years ago as an art teacher in the elementary school. She married another outsider and settled down in a handsome mid-19th century home by the lake. A Cuisinart and a microwave oven share the house with her crank phone. She is not a purist...
...struggle when he finishes his thesis next fall and enters the job market. He plans to work for the same causes, perhaps in the labor movement with a stop at law school along the way. He may also try his hand at electoral politics. "I'm not a purist in the sense that someone has to be a socialist to get my support--there aren't a whole lot of those officials around...I would be willing to work for any candidate I consider to be solidly progressive," he adds, citing Rep. Barney Frank '61 (D-Mass.) and Sen. Edward...
Boswell--whose byline now regularly appears on the sports pages of the Washington Post--is a baseball purist, weaned on stickball, bubblegum cards, and dog-earned Street and Smith's baseball yearbooks New Life....his first foray into the book world, is designed primarily, appropriately enough, for other purists, those estimable creatures who can really understand why a walk is most times as good as a hit or why the Baltimore Orioles have won more games than any other team in the past 20 years. A rambling compendium of assorted stories and analyses spaced out over a mythical season...
...term off-topic may have been coined by a condescending purist, but now the apostate sect, like up-and-coming Fauvists, revels in the name. Bill Smith, a natty, placid Harvard freshman and Kidd's teammate, suggests a continuing enmity between the offs and the ons. "Off-topic debaters," he explains, "tend to despise on-topic, because most of us were on-topic in high school. I was, for a year and a half. It's very, very intense." Burned out at 18, they seek refuge in the unruly rumble of off-topic. "Sometimes," says Sanford Cohen...