Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes and Negro mind, he makes a noble try. All the Kingdoms is presented by its author and its publishers as a novel, but it is more a loose-linked succession of anec dotes and characters. Written with re strained passion and sincere compassion, the book is a sociological blend of feeling and outrage reminiscent of Alan Paton's more powerful hymn to the blacks of South Africa, Cry, the Beloved Country...
...Pomona only enough to carry on the program one year, Economist Bond feels that he will have no trouble making the course permanent. At course's end, 22 of the 25 said they would like to come back next year. Said one executive: "The lectures all seem to blend...
...result was a low-key blend of strings and muted brasses which sounded as smooth as cream and went down with the public just as easily. The album is still Columbia's popular bestseller outside the jazz field. (It is behind Dave Brubeck but ahead of the albums of such old standbys as Frank Sinatra, Paul Weston and Les Elgart.) Legrand followed it up with a series of mood collections on European capitals (Holiday in Rome, Castles in Spain, Vienna Holiday) which, with his first album, have sold upwards of 400,000 albums...
Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
Life Is Death. Wilson's invisible man, the Outsider, may be described as a blend of existentialist hero, religious man without God, and prophet or saint-in-embryo. His dilemma might be described as that of a man living under the conviction of sin who cannot accept traditional Christianity. In the lines of Eliot's Ash Wednesday...