Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selection process for the World Festival Days is a blend of international politics and recognition of talent which transcends boundaries--each year the ISCM General Assembly chooses one member nation to present the annual festival. (The United States, due to the dearth of government subsidies for the arts, has traditionally been at a disadvantage because of the lack of guaranteed funds.) Then, the member nations select compositions from their countries and submit them to the international jury, which includes contemporary music luminaries Gunther Schuller, Elliott Carter, Jacques Guyonnet, David Drew, and Marlos Nobre. A special effort was made this year...
...reason is Texas Monthly's mix: a skilled blend of solid investigative articles, statewide consumer guides to shopping and shows, the clever graphics of Art Director Sybil Newman Broyles and paeans to such Texas institutions as cowboy boots, wildcat oil drillers, chicken fried steaks and the brothel "that slept more politicians than the Driskill Hotel and the Governor's mansion combined." In fact, keeping citified Texans in touch with their frontier heritage is one of TM's top missions. Says Editor William Broyles, 31: "Our goal is to locate, and glory in, the rough edges of Texas...
...lacks a good gag writer, but got off a few zingers of his own. Sample: "President Ford says he wants more national parks. Well, I've checked his record, and the only park he has supported is the President of South Korea." Throughout the week, Mondale struggled to blend the liberalism that he learned at Hubert Humphrey's knee with Carter's politics of moral leadership. At times Mondale seemed to forget that inflation now comes first in Carter's list of problems to be solved. In city after city he stressed unemployment, claiming that "counting...
Abbado's conducting was a deft blend of energy, delicacy and a Toscanini-like instinct for the dramatic jugular. Even better, perhaps, was his mercurial handling two nights later of Rossini's La Cenerentola (Cinderella). This work is chamber music for the opera house and easily the high point of the composer's comic style. Abbado has that style in his bones...
Political Corpses. The notion that Mao's China is partly a captive of its his tory has been developed by an entire generation of China scholars. Most have discussed the tenacity of tradition in sketchy, abstract terms. Solomon's skillful blend of words and pictures brings the past and present into sharp focus...