Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high. Captain James N. M. Davis of Evanston, Ill. lost his pants in the waves. Major James Roosevelt of Washington, second in command to Lieut. Colonel Evans F. Carlson, cut his left index finger on a piece of coral. But the Marines, their faces and hands daubed green to blend with the foliage, all got ashore...
Other stations-among them, WABC and WOR, New York; KFI, KNX and KHJ, Los Angeles; and KIRO and KJR, Seattle-do better. They often blend a mixture of news, swing, classical and semi-classical recordings and transcriptions of good network sustainers. Many of the stations report rapturous letters from workers on the night shifts, but sponsors haven't come a-rushing...
...difference between these two pieces of writing is the difference between the two parts of the book. The biography of MacArthur is shrewdly and competently done. But when Author Hersey describes the men of Bataan and their battles, feeling and words blend in the unforced flow that is the pulse of music and writing...
...plays are a bright, shifty blend of parable, poem, ballet, vaudeville, dream and relaxed ad-libbing. At their worst they contain, as Saroyan confesses, "careless and cheap feelings . . . cleverness and petty bitterness, spoofing and kidding, vulgarity here and there perhaps. . . ." At their best they meet Saroyan's requirements for art: "The surprise of art is not shock, but wonder. . . . The excitement it creates is not that of fear or loathing or irritation, but the excitement of revelation, understanding, love, and delight." Now & then Saroyan's spontaneity has the revelatory abruptness of a magnesium flare...
...half uplifter, half showman, at 60 De Mille is Hollywood's oldest successful movie maker. He got there by ignoring the art of motion-picture making, concentrating on expensive theatrics, and trimming his sails to the prevailing breeze. Reap is part of his latest excursion-pioneer Americana, a blend of history & hokum which has produced North West Mounted Police, Paramount's top grossing picture (about $2,500,000) of the last ten years. This calculated program has not produced one really fine motion picture, but it has long entertained the biggest segment of U.S. ticket buyers (modal...