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Word: blende (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many mainstream Christians?particularly those most critical of the values of commercial American society and suspicious about serving God and Mammon together?are troubled by the way in which celebrated Evangelicals blend show biz and salvation. They deplore the star system they tend to foster and the amounts of cash required to maintain what has been referred to as the "country-and-westernization of religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to that Oldtime Religion | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

Montgomery Ward has remodeled its spacious outlet in Skokie, Ill., installing new surveillance posts that blend into the décor. Observation towers are disguised as structural supports; protruding mirrors along a wall conceal guards who scan the throngs of shoppers crowding the aisles. Retailers around the country are taking similar security measures. Reason: business is booming in the weeks before Christmas, but so is shoplifting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Tis the Season To Be Wary | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...personal insight. Karajan accepts the boundary lines and then plays the game for all he is worth. His Eroica, for example, is a shade faster than before, his Fourth broader, darker, more ruminative. But what really sets this album, apart-from its ancestors and competitors alike-is its distinctive blend of youthful pizazz and seasoned know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Turning to the Classical Side | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

...ultimately Bromberg's personality and showmanship that pull it through and make it work so well. Yes, the arrangements are almost flawlessly tight, and yes, the soloing and general musicianship is superb throughout the album. But that's not it. Bromberg brings to his music a rare blend of talent, technique and energy that makes him a highly charismatic entertainer. And that's what Reckless Abandon is really all about: good entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bromberg's Abandon | 11/10/1977 | See Source »

...primate (the order of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys) who had lived on the threshold of humanity. Still, he recognized that the creature was even more primitive than Java man. He named it Australopithecus africanus, or the southern ape of Africa. The skull displayed an odd blend of ape and human characteristics. Dart's creature clearly had a large, apelike face, but its teeth were proportioned like those of a modern man. Its brain, although far smaller than that of a human child, had nonetheless been larger than an ape's. Perhaps

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puzzling Out Man's Ascent | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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