Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterly summary of the children's book situation in this country. It had just the right blend of historical and contemporary, commercial and literary...
...melodrama. Its only valid "meaning" is as a glorification of human courage. Its primary appeal is not to the understanding or the esthetic sense, but to whatever in us is receptive to sheer physical action. But as such, it is a very fine movie, a highly effective blend of tension and irony...
...liked the Greek blend of reason and passion, the serene acceptance of humanity's lot coupled with a fierce resolution to better one's own. Out of genuine affection and twenty-twenty vision, Author Lee has fashioned the best of the few U.S. books about Greece, even including Henry Miller's dithyrambic tribute, The Colossus of Maroussi...
...word shrinks and the drawings loom larger, more and more writer-artists are becoming the big moneymakers of children's books. Holling C. Holling (Seabird, Pagoo) deals with America, past and present, in large, posterlike illustrations and detailed marginal sketches that make a handsome blend of the factual and fanciful. Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder) catches the stillness of a Maine morning before a storm, with both his brush and typewriter. Ludwig Bemelmans has won as many adults as children with his Madeline stories and his Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn...
...prime task of next week's summit conference is to overcome this unhappy blend of fear, cynicism and narrow self-interest and to give new vitality and strength to the NATO alliance. No one could plot this new course except statesmen and diplomats. But the man who knows most about the terrain ahead and who must lead NATO along the course the summiteers lay down is a lean, greying figure in U.S. Air Force blue. More than any statesman. General Lauris Norstad, Supreme Allied Commander Europe, knows and deals with the awkward big realities and the small difficulties...