Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quotes, it seems, nearly every man who has ever written well, usually very aptly-Never Call Retreat becomes as rich an anthology of ravenous reading as ever disguised itself as a novel. When he is talking politics, or living them in the concentration camp, the book reaches a grinding blend of clumsiness with poignancy which puts it, like many better books, in a class by itself, almost irrelevant to normal criticism...
...blend ancient adages with some of the more outstanding Baker boys: First come, first served: Hugnenor... A hitch in time saves nine: Glassow... There's NO place like home: Lawango... The early bird is a damnphool: Hartley... A rose is a rose is a rose: Fitzsimmons... Now heah this: Robertson ... In the spring I have a fancy: Harris ... But, sir, -I don't smoke...
Such "bird cages" were the cradle of Ralph Michaelis' career as a fighter pilot in World War I. His "continuous story of [the R.A.F.] from its beginnings to the present day" is a fine blend of solid history and excellent narrative...
...Army Hour is a skillful blend of Army and NBC talent. The Army provides the cast and the military props. NBC pays the costs ($3,500 a week) and supplies the broadcast facilities. A staff of seasoned radiomen (Writer-Producer-Director Wyllis Cooper, Studio Director Eddie Dunham, Liaison Man Captain Ed Byron) put the show together. The man who conceived it is Lieut. Colonel Edward M. Kirby, chief of the radio branch of the War Department's Bureau of Public Relations...
...asides about the Portuguese and Spaniards, who are set up, patronizingly, as half savages, are a good deal worse than mere literary botching. But Forester has a real gift for making warfare articulate to laymen, and a gift no less admirable for revealing, in just proportion, war's blend of honor, selflessness, intelligence, insanity, bestiality; for suggesting, too, the awful disparity between war's expenditure, war's result...