Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Proclamation, but he knows vaguely that it is a significant phrase. Professor Jones agrees that the single concept of "the pursuit or happiness" is a very important one in American intellectual history, and he has written this book to explain its origin and significance. The result is a fascinating amalgam of constitutional law, political theory, literary analysis, and popular psychology, embracing topics as obscure as the citizen's constitutional right to smoke opium...
...verse is lively, flowing, and unusually beautiful at times. The best way to demonstrate Mr. Alfred's fine amalgam of poetry and speech is to quote:"Can't you remember Troy? The men dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions...
...philosopher turned lawyer turned administrator. He writes, sails a yawl, plays a piano, composes light operettas and teaches Humanities 4. Perhaps his breadth of interest is fitting, for as the new Chairman of the Committee on General Education, Rhinelander is at the helm of a diverse amalgam of courses that is the College's most important educational experiment of the generation...
...started to move. One was Hamilton Fish, former Representative and tag line of Roosevelt's famous ban "Martin, Barton and Fish." He announced he would enter the New York Senatorial race on an amalgam of the American and Constitutional party slates. Other support blossomed in Florida and Connecticut...
...This amalgam of corn and cleavage has been handsomely directed by Josef...