Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were worried when we saw a gang of workmen spreading hot asphalt over what had been a lawn at the entrance to Seever Hall, but our anxieties have been set at rest now that the metalled surface has been painted green. If this green does not exactly blend into the surrounding landscape the fault must lie with the landscape, and I hope Buildings and Grounds will have the courage to continue this treatment throughout the Yard, in the interests of, consistency...
...lyrics speed by a little fast for those yet untrained by Gilbert and Sullivan, but the children are never bored. They always like noise, and besides the songs provide a chance for dancing and kicking, an essential in children's productions. Beverly Butte's choreography is a good blend of the clumsiness which delights children and the bland musical step. A modern minuet performed by Peter Parker and Earle Edgerton, the king's courtiers, is particularly successful in its slapstick...
Meanwhile, a huge bite of the company revenue goes to support a royal regime that is itself a fantastic blend of East and West, ancient and modern. The money pours in like a flash flood in a dry wadi but it flows out even faster. This year's government budget estimates a deficit of close to $60 million. Little of the huge sums that are spent trickle past the palace gates into the hands of ordinary Saudis...
...Lifers." That is the active side of Maryknoll. There is a contemplative side, too. For monasticism has always been a blend of Martha and Mary,* of the temper represented by Vincent de Paul, the great fighter against poverty, and the spirit of Francis of Assisi, who considered it more important to live in poverty than to fight it. From time to time, a Maryknoll sister will disappear from her mission rounds and make her way to a secluded farmhouse close to Maryknoll's main building. That is the Maryknoll cloister, where 18 sisters (there will ultimately be 24) selected...
From the record, the conclusion can hardly be escaped that neither the British nor the Americans believed in their hearts what they kept telling themselves: that the postwar world could be organized on a rock of unity with Russia. They knew that democracy and Communism would not blend, but they could not find any other assumption upon which to face the postwar period. Communist propaganda, then very powerful in the U.S. and Britain, contributed to the myth that all but the Communist leaders half believed. But the main damage for which Yalta stands was not contrived by the Communists...