Word: blende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sits with his eyes closed and thinks, for instance, about a familiar face. An alpha wave sweeps across his brain. In some mysterious way, not yet understood, the wave is able to select the right impulses stored in the memory circuits. Many impulses, representing color, shape, light and shade, blend together into a picture of the remembered person's face...
...seemed petty. Wrote Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann: "I count it among the most brilliant and original achievements of the young literary generation." The trouble is that Prokosch has gone on writing variants of the same book for 13 years. His latest is Storm and Echo, like The Asiatics, a blend of far places, strange and terrible events, and a murky, anguished, generally unsuccessful search for the meaning of life...
Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 12 sides). Berlioz' blend of bombast and beauty is hard to resist in the performance of this great Amsterdam orchestra. Recording: excellent...
...after day sat smoking and talking around the green table were trying hard to blend their differences. Despite serious remaining obstacles, they had achieved more harmony than anyone had had reason to hope. They were talking resources and money and credits and export balances. What that talk added up to was the slowly growing life of Western Union...
...Cain's dream girls are screenable without a change of makeup; so is Jack Dillon. A star halfback and a trained engineer, he has "taffy" blond hair, dimples in his shoulders, and he displays that blend of brass and mechanical ingenuity that is required of a Cain hero, like an Eagle Scout who never heard of the gentler things a Scout is supposed to be. The best things in the book are like the best things in all Cain's books: clear, fast-moving narrative passages in which Jack Dillon tells you step by step how he bluffed...