Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deus), but an adolescent's enthusiasm and wonder animate every moment of Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare, the one-man divertissement in which he opened last week on Broadway for a five-week engagement. First concocted in 1976 and intermittently toured ever since, the show is an amalgam of personal reminiscences, theatrical lore and selections from Will Shakespeare's Greatest Hits. It gives McKellen a sort of actor's holiday untrammeled by directorial "concepts" or other actors' demands...
...pacification of Europe, a continent plagued for centuries with war, is according to the author, a perfect example of what a realist approach to diplomacy can do. The foundation of the post-war order consists of a balance of power and an amalgam of economic and security treaties, all the 3 products of years of labor and negotiations. After all, it took fifteen years for the Soviet Union to accept the permanence of Western interests in Berlin...
Like so many African countries, Chad is an amalgam of religious and ethnic groups that were arbitrarily united by colonial rule. The country straddles the nomadic Muslim culture of the Sahara and the black African traditions of Christians and animists who are engaged in agriculture in the savannas of the more densely populated south. Although Chad's internal turmoil began as a conflict between north and south, it has grown into a power struggle between Habré and Goukouni, two Muslim warlords from the north...
...sustained by an amalgam of pride and abiding Roman Catholic faith, Marie, then 29, began a private war against circumstance. She won a Vanderbilt University scholarship and became active in the Young Democrats Club...
...satanic mantle and no ideal, no evil and no angels." Said Moïsi: "How do you educate people to the dubious charms of the balance of power? We are in a different world-a mixture of vague idealism and a lot of cynicism regarding power politics, a dangerous amalgam that sees the two superpowers as equally mediocre. What we have lost is the sense of what we are defending, what makes deterrence worthwhile...