Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Numbers? The priest answered with a blend of military discretion and brass-hat vanity: "We have them in every important city in the north-Milan, Genoa, Turin. There we are roughly equal with the enemy. They outnumber us in Sesto San Giovanni. We outnumber them 3 to 1 at Varese . . . by 4 to 1 at Bergamo and 2 to 1 at Brescia. . . ." Milan's A.C. was not the only Catholic resistance group. In Rome (and elsewhere) Catholic youths organized and marched...
...Never Happen and J. F. Powers' sketches of Catholic clergy in Prince of Darkness. Lionel Trilling's The Middle of the Journey was a thoughtful but disappointing study of New York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...play together and so on. And yet, the idea was there. Schubert is easy to play wrong; it can be slushy or dry or cute; to get the unique Schubert characteristic of Romantic Classicism and complex simplicity is difficult. But the orchestra, despite its momentary technical amnesia, got that blend perfectly...
They may be yelling at each other tomorrow afternoon, but Harvard and Princeton men will blend their voices at Sanders Theatre tonight at 8:15 o'clock when the two glee clubs get together for what the singers hope to make an annual affair...
Helen Tamiris' dances are particularly fine, displaying the same blend of comedy and vigor that distinguished her choreography for "Annie Get Your Gun." Two of the best numbers display a remarkably long-limbed and proficient dancer called Laverne French, who fits neatly into the bizarre Tamiris routines. The rest of the cast does not measure up to the company this production offered in New York last year, either as actors or singers. Nonetheless, it captures the spirit of the walking-stick, the courtesy and the graceful bow, which is, in essence the spirit of "Show Boat...