Word: amalgam
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...fallen into "careless habits of accuracy." He would have relished the work of the British recluse Edmund Backhouse, celebrated in his day (1873-1944) for his translations from the Chinese and his vast Sinological contributions to Oxford's Bodleian Library. The Backhouse oeuvre is filled with an amalgam of profound insight, scholarship and, it now appears, pornography; all it lacks is a single component: truth...
...program that offers something for everybody runs the risk of not much pleasing anybody. So it is with Jimmy Carter's economic program-an amalgam of quick tax rebates for individuals, permanent though much smaller tax cuts for low-income people and corporations, a speedup in public works and other job-creating programs for the unemployed, all calculated to pump $12 billion to $16 billion into the lagging economy this year, a similar amount in fiscal 1978. As comment rolled in last week from economists, businessmen, labor leaders and politicians, the predominant tone was one of disappointment...
...strange amalgam, this Oklahoma! It's an ambitious production that fiddles with and attempts to broaden the most familiar book in the musical theater, but then realizes it so sloppily that it's hard to remember that it isn't a high school stage. The freshness of the musical comes back at times when this peculiarly doctored version tries to remind its audience just why the play excited audiences who didn't know that musical performers weren't exclusively nocturnal creatures in evening clothes and taps. The conceivers of this Oklahoma! understand just how remarkable it was that a musical...
Twenty percent of its population are black. The other 80% are an amalgam of mint-julep aristocrats out of Faulkner's Sartoris clan, Mexican Americans from Texas, Roman Catholic Cajuns in Louisiana, Cubans and Jews in Miami, Vietnamese resettled on the Gulf Coast and Anglo-Saxon Baptists everywhere...
...Hope, Charlie Brown, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Bing Crosby and many others. This kind of show is virtually the property of NBC this year. The network has scheduled 190 hours of nonseries specials programming, plus 45 hours of a weekly spectacular it calls The Big Event. TBE is an amalgam of movies, novels-into-books and such nonhappenings as a 4½-hour special-during its worst rated year ever-in honor of NBC's own 50th anniversary. Highlights: the first network TV showing of Gone With the Wind in two parts (commercials were sold...