Word: purvey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...history is the art of deception," Albert Fried has one of the characters in The Prescott Chronicles say. Fried would know. His own art represents an attempt to purvey a new kind of history in literary guise--to perpetrate another, more elaborate form of dissimulation which he paradoxically sees as an essay in truth-telling. This may not be the way the history books tell it, Fried suggests, but it's the way it must have been...
...fact, only one article in this month's [MORE] that achieves what the magazine proposes to do: systematically criticize the media. There's this conspiracy, you see; the role of television in our society, according to John Leonard, The New York Times' roving cultural correspondent, is to "purvey legitimizing ceremonies." His wonderfully acerbic rundown of T.V.'s convention coverage ends thusly...
HABEAS CORPUS. The middle-aged hero of this achingly funny farce studies lechery like a college course, but he gets nary an A for carnal knowledge. In key roles, Donald Sinden and Rachel Roberts convey randy frustration and purvey music hall bawdry...
More broadly, Griffith says that the function of the newsman should not be to purvey final answers and finished philosophy: "He is neither defender of any faith nor prophet of new orders, nothing so grand as that. His role in society is more like a dredging engineer, whose job it is to keep channels free and clear." He will not always succeed because "imperfection is the journalist's working climate." And newsmen are mistaken if they expect universal applause even when they do the dredging well. There are always those who like the silt...
...such assistance. Some garages offer expert advice and collections of fix-it literature. They also attract car buffs who are willing to share their knowledge with beginners. Baltex is even organizing a five-session course for customers-tuition: $25. At the Van Nuys, Calif., Auto Hobby Center, Actor Bob Purvey recently rebuilt the engine of his 1959 Jaguar. That intricate operation would have cost $2,600 if done commercially; Purvey spent only $1,000. "I hope I never have to do it again," he says, "but now I know just how it works. No garage is ever going...