Word: blende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have said that Caulfield's final product is the perfect blend of moral and drama, and director Albert Marre must be credited with an assist. Aside from the opening moments which prepare us for what is to come, there is never a dull scene, never an undefined pause. Characters and speeches are light and dark in complete accord with the dramatic requirements. It is fitting to note in conclusion that Robert O'Hearn's simple set and Francis Sidlauskas' reserved lighting form a neat framework for the play...
...made. The movies have already bought it for a reported $100,000, and the Literary Guild has made it the February choice. In the current story market, neither could have made a wiser move. My Cousin Rachel is that comparatively rare thing in present-day writing, an expert blend of suspense, shrewd realism and romantic hokum...
...Shrike (by Joseph Kramm) is a scary blend of theatricalism and truth- a case history of an intelligent man who, having attempted suicide, is brought to the psychiatric ward of a city hospital. Completely sane, he comes up against maddening institutional methods of both procedure and inquiry. And beyond his medical inquisitors, there is the wife he has deserted for another woman. Outwardly all devotion to the man who scorned her, she is viciously determined he shall not walk out of the hospital into any arms but her own. Half-crazed by the hospital's methods of therapy...
...Hydrogen 12. Gurdjieff seems to have been a remarkable blend of P. T. Barnum, Rasputin, Freud, Groucho Marx and everybody's grandfather. To his disciples, he was a great man, a modern saint. To doubters, he was an astute phony peddling intellectual narcotics to spiritual neurotics. But all sides seemed to agree that he had picked up, as he acknowledged himself, an astonishing amount of useful information...
Emotional Pitch. A happy blend of determination and high spirits-Dave was touring with her and their courtship was progressing-won Andy the Hannes Schneider Pokal at St. Anton. At Chamonix (where nets are rigged to keep racers from going over precipices), she won the slalom. Then she went back to Austria and in five days won one downhill, two slaloms, and two giant slaloms...