Word: blend
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half produced for Ford of Canada by CBC) and the CBC-produced General Motors Presents-a sponsor cannot...
Congratulations. Your Nov. 9 cover story on Senator Stuart Symington was the most masterful exercise in subtle poisoning since the Borgias went legit. A truly fascinating blend of lux, veritas and hogwash...
...present architectural rebirth was defeat in World War II. The B-29s flattened Japanese cities, and the U.S. occupation knocked into limbo the oppressive remnants of autocracy and feudalism that had saddled Japan for centuries. And up from the ashes rose a new Japanese architecture that is attempting to blend modern technology with traditional Japanese needs and feeling for structure. Best of this new generation intent on making "something new of tradition" is Kenzo Tange, 46, who stands today at the crossroads where Japanese tradition and contemporary architecture meet...
Some of the modern architect's best customers are the U.S.'s expanding schools and colleges. But one of his most difficult problems is how to blend modern architecture with the traditional style enshrined in many an ivy-covered wall. Last week Eero Saarinen, probably the most versatile of living architects, unveiled the best solution...
...mightiest press mouthpiece, London's Daily Mirror, have long drawn strength from a common source: young people. The Labor Party grew to power with help from Britain's discontented, we-can-change-the-world young folk. The Daily Mirror (circ. 4,571,000), serving up a spicy blend of triangular love, bloody crimes, and pictures of young ladies in the near buff came to command the world's largest newspaper audience of readers under 35 years: some 1,500,000. But in recent months, the Mirror has begun to wonder if, so far as its youthful readers...