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Tourism is making inroads, and restaurants have been designed with day-trippers in mind, but the village remains pristine.
Humility is a desirable attribute of those who deal with language, and it ill behooves purists and precisions to turn their noses up at vulgarians and others who fail to preserve the language in its supposedly pristine condition.
Pope Sixtus' chapel's pristine since That pope he was the Sistine prince.
This latest installment of the "Penguin Lives" series is well received, even though it trails Richard Ellman's definitive 900-page Joyce tome, which was deemed "probably this century's best biography of a writer" (David Kippen, the San Francisco Chronicle ). Undaunted, novelist O'Brien attempts something entirely different: She gives 179 pages of "hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around" (Robert Sullivan, the New York Times Book Review ). It's notable not for its wide net, but for its precision, economy, and insight: "a first-rate appraisal of a master … a model of pristine brevity" (Robert Taylor, the Boston Globe ). One complaint: The book contains an "impressive number of inaccuracies of a factual nature," such as misidentifying the poet laureate of Victorian Ireland and misquoting critic Walter Pater (Thomas Flannagan, the Los Angeles Times ). (This Joyce site has essays, links, and message boards on the author.)
Cancún, Cozumel, and the Maya Riviera offer some of the most pristine waters for diving and a wealth of natural reefs and artificial dive sites to explore.
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