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Sinclair Lewis

(1885—1951)

U.S. novelist

Our American professors like their literature clean and cold and pure and very dead.

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pure and simple

[pure and simple] {adj.} Simply stated; basic. - Follows the noun it modifies and is used for emphasis. * /The problem, pure and simple, is finding a baby-sitter./ * /The […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

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