Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raid. He suffered from epilepsy and strokes. His wife died of cancer. To support himself he had to do tourist views and kitsch portraits in the Lake District village where, at 60, he died. But he never stopped working, and what a friend called the distinctive "Schwitters aroma"--an amalgam of glue, flour paste and guinea pigs, the portable pets of his exile--followed him to the end of his days...
...swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment tradition, with its belief in the perfectibility of man. Cotton Mather, meet Thomas Jefferson. This contradictory combination bespeaks the sheer and sometimes hopelessly unrealistic determination to overcome any evil that cannot be ignored, the refusal to accept...
...because he introduces such a vast amalgam of material into his discussion, Cohen sometimes encounters problems. One difficulty is the occasional superficial treatment of complex historical events. To write, as Cohen does, that there was little fear of a political revolution in 19th century England is simply incorrect. A more lamentable but necessary shortcoming is the book's limited space, restricting his discussion of some interesting subjects...
...stay too long in your bed,/ Never lose your heart, use your head"), and Paige taunts the lyric into an anthem of cold-steel defiance. Here she evokes the clarion brass of Ethel Merman, the liquid phrasing of Barbra Streisand and the rasping energy of the Ronettes--an electrifying amalgam. Chess reveals Paige as the strongest, smartest voice in today's musical theater...
...already perched in the higher altitudes, holds that his stage directions are not embellishment but requirements fundamental to his play's radical astringency. And the play's the thing, he insists. Brustein, the eminent former head of the Yale University School of Drama, counters that theater is an amalgam of creative efforts, with contributions by the director, designers and actors. Says he: "The play, while the most important aspect, is not the only one." Brustein draws a distinction between new plays and those already in the canon. When staging a premiere, a director should respect the letter of the playwright...