Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...occasion piece. Wagner accepted, perhaps because he was going broke mounting the first Ring cycle. He also hoped "soon to be assured of the American visitors" at Bayreuth. The American festivities opened in Philadelphia, May 10, 1876, with the composer's Centennial March. The work, a turgid blend of bathos and pomposity, turned out to be one of Wagner's very worst...
Both perceptions are partly correct. The lobby in practice is a blend of a well-staffed professional nucleus in Washington and the normally undirected but highly effective outpouring of articulate and intense sentiment from Jews throughout the nation. Jewish contributions to political campaigns also build influential allegiances with legislators and other officeholders. The money can be pivotal in launching a new political career but is rarely critical to re-election except in states where Jews are heavily concentrated, especially New York and California...
...Wicker's career soared on such turbulence. As a correspondent for the New York Times, he distinguished himself in Dallas on Nov. 22,1963. As a liberal Southerner from Hamlet, N.C., he brought a blend of hard perception and raw emotion to the coverage of civil rights. He was also a workmanlike but disappointed novelist. When he became the Times's Washington bureau chief and later took over the retired Arthur Krock's "In the Nation" column it appeared that Wicker's metamorphosis into a gentleman-journalist was complete...
...where ambiguous forms interweave and recede into the background. Although Gorky's manipulation of abstract shapes is imaginative, his portraits display a more impressive versatility. Portrait of Vartoosh (his sister with whom he fled from Turkish Armenia) makes use of uncommonly bold pencil lines that stand out individually and blend to form a unified composition. Gorky chooses a different approach for the portrait of his mother. Here there are no discrete lines; the features are formed by altering the intensity of the charcoal. His careful regulation of tonality enhances the sullen quality of the woman's somber face with large...
...brand Kissinger an appeaser and demand the removal of a President is a curious blend of simple and lordly tastes. He likes the perquisites of his $90,000-a-year job, including being chauffeured in a black Cadillac limousine. Meany rides in front -not as a gesture toward egalitarianism, but because he gets carsick if he tries to read while sitting in back. On his way home to Bethesda, Md., he usually pores over the New York Daily News, a surviving habit from his days in The Bronx, which he left almost 30 years...