Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doubt (as the program notes point out) as to how much of the blame for Alceste's failure is his own and how much society's. Although this irresolution is somewhat troubling, it does not detract from the quality of the Poet's presentation. Davison makes the misanthrope's blend of frustration and courage more sympathetic than otherwise, and handles Wilbur's lively and facile translation with an easy authority that characterizes most of the other performances as well...
...Connolly's peculiar blend of pugnaciousness and competitive spirit which ended his Harvard athletic career and turned him into a sports idol at the end of the 19th century...
...even warring disciplines," the Columbia professor of physics warned. Our present educational system, even in our great universities, succeeds only in mixing ingredients and hoping that "through some mysterious alchemy, the result will be a man, educated, well-rounded and wise. Most often, however, these ingredients do not blend," he asserted...
...readers American Heritage offers a rich blend of good storytelling, vivid historical fact, and fine color pictures. Heritage articles have included an account of the illegitimate birth and wretched boyhood of Alexander Hamilton, Robert Todd Lincoln's agonized testimony in court that his mother was insane, a suppressed account of the death of John Brown, and a medical study of George Washington (who turned out a 4-F by modern standards...
...Young and Beautiful (by Sally Benson). Laid in Chicago in 1915, this stage blend of Scott Fitzgerald stories concerns a teen-age beauty who seems, in her blasé posturings, an early Jazz-Age young thing. She yearns for the perfect love, and in the search for it no sooner conquers suitors than she brusquely casts them aside. At last she meets and wins the perfect lover (James Olson), but there follows neither romantic lightning nor satiric laughter. There is rather the chill discovery that even now she cannot respond, that the seeker of a grand passion is incapable...