Bill steps outside into a pristine world — in this suburb of Salt Lake City, the sky is blue, the mountains loom majestically in the background, and the streets are immaculate.
"We would all rather live in a pristine world," said Jere White, a lawyer for Monsanto and Solutia, in his opening argument two weeks ago.
Chasing profit for its own sake is still considered grubby in Japan, like blowing your nose in public.In this pristine world making things is considered more virtuous than selling them.
But the gates guarding the pristine world of children's literature had been opened, and, some twenty years later, Maurice Sendak, another writer edited by Nordstrom, would also challenge people's perceptions of what constituted "suitable" material for young people.
AS "Mending" attests, Mr. Feld, who is 57 and has choreographed 106 dances since his first acclaimed efforts at American Ballet Theater in 1967, is a renegade in the pristine world of ballet.
For much of 17 days, Salt Lake City resembled "Pleasantville," the movie about a town stuck in the black-and-white 1950's until modern attitudes shook up its pristine world.
"It's part of a systemic pattern where there's a divergence between the pristine world of the V.A.'s central office and what goes on around the country," said Gordon Erspamer, a lawyer for the plaintiffs.
"When he writes, he seems to be saying: 'You've done such terrible things against the pristine world of randomization that you're not going to be allowed in the covenant.' " Aware of his critics, Dr. Gotzsche said he was "not cooking up difficulties or being nihilistic".
They long for a pristine world in which laws and lawyers do not trip them at every step, where they can work quietly, industriously and productively by themselves.
Indeed, many of its supporters would prefer a pristine world in which Homo sapiens remained primitive or did not exist at all.
