Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slick from Punkin Crick (Paramount), which has been performed more than 50,000 times on the stage as "the greatest of all rural comedies," comes to the screen for the first time without setting any celluloid on fire. This 1919 corn-belt classic by Lieut. Beale Cormack* is a blend of Joe Miller and mellowdrama, with a cast of hayseedy characters: confidence man Bill Merridew (Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), who is out to fleece Josie, the pretty Oklahoma widow (Dinah Shore), only to be outwitted by bashful bumpkin Aaron (Alan Young). To this staple story the picture adds...
Author Egon Hostovsky knows his Czechoslovakia. A veteran of the Czech diplomatic service and a friend of Jan Masaryk, he quit his post as attache in Oslo after the Red coup and now lives in the U.S. Missing is an unusually smooth blend of thriller and moral tale. And page after page, despite a plot that often seems unduly complex, Hostovsky gives a thoroughly convincing picture of a country drifting into Moscow's grip...
...implanted in us a yearning for everlasting life. To pretend that we do not have this longing is as great a self-deception as to act uninterested when the dinner bell rings. Whether our lives are happy or unhappy, or-like most lives-a confusing blend of dullness and joy and anguish, within each of us is the hunger for a kind of life so radiant and intense that the grave will not be able to frustrate it. God has created us this way; He has built the desire into our very being." -The Rev. Chad Walsh in Episcopal Churchnews...
...blinking and flashing in Hogan's brain, carrying danger signals from his nerves and muscles. When the switchboard is really busy-as it will be on April 3 when Hogan plays in the Masters Tournament at Augusta, Ga.-he deliberately shifts himself into a state in which people blend into the landscape like so many trees or blades of grass. Opponents actually believe that he has learned how to control his heartbeat and regulate the flow of juices from his thyroid and adrenal glands...
...much validity today as they had in the much more serene world of 1923. We still believe that the concept of purely "objective" reporting is not only unattainable but unrealistic. The editors of TIME have always set themselves a more workable goal: fairness, and a constant effort to blend the news into its own background. And while avoiding glib predictions of the future, TIME seeks to present the news in a way that will give its readers an intelligent estimate of what the future is likely to bring...