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...obvious military investments have always been avoided, Treasurer Robert Greiner questioned the report's blackballing of standard blue chips like A.T. &T. (5.5% military sales, principally the Safeguard ballistic missile system and Nike Hercules missile). "You can't get out of everything," Greiner said. "To be a purist, you could hardly stay in the U.S." Even worse conflicts will probably be raised when the Corporate Information Center starts evaluating industries for their overall "purity," considering such factors as their consumer policies, minority-hiring practices and polluting of the environment. What if a major corporation turns out to have...
...revolution be financed by $200 leather jackets? Why not? After all, if you believe in the revolution, it shouldn't matter where the money comes from. On the other hand, the moral fabric of such an operation feels a little like chintz. But that's probably middle-class folk-purist inverse snobbism...
...what you do with that attraction that counts. I mean, you can be attracted and say I reject that attraction. You can also say I can't help it I'm going to follow it and try it on their terms. I think there is a false purist point of view that says it never interested me-I'm not looking at it, I never have, and I never will. That's not a very useful...
...suddenly asked them to join him for a tour, they quickly accepted. "We knew who he was," says Robbie, "but we didn't know he was near as famous as he was." That was the point in Dylan's life when he turned his back on his folk-purist fans and met rock head on. The rock he met was provided by The Hawks?who became known as "the band." The result was folk rock. In some ways, that was the most decisive moment in rock history. One reason is that rock thereafter began to make increasing...
Although rooted in case history. Them is fiction in the purist sense: data, perception, feeling transformed by language and imagination into a new existence with a vitality that can even survive critical explanation...