Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Claudine (Diahann Carroll) is a maid. Roop (James Earl Jones) is a garbage man. She is a blend of obnoxious stereotypes. The first is the libidinous black woman who cannot stop having children despite her poverty. The second is the stern, loving matriarch urging the middle-class success ethic on her brood. Roop is merely single-line stereotype, the stud who has fled his obligations to one family and is now doing his best to love and leave Claudine...
...Zeppelin went aloft in 1968, the British rock has sold more albums than the Rolling Stones, played to bigger audiences than the Beatles in their heyday, and brought Atlantic Records $50 million in business. Much of that success is due to Zeppelin Manager Peter Grant, 39, a burly cockney blend of street smartness and business savvy...
...what motivated the author? Was she really like her characters? Now, after 20 years, Sagan has apparently decided to take her readers more into her confidence. The equivocal result is Scars on the Soul, a blend of fiction, personal reflection and autobiographical episode, which, the author notes, is neither literature nor true confession...
...Olga Madar, international vice president of the United Auto Workers and newly appointed president of the CLUW, disagrees: "For the first time women workers have united to speak out against sexual discrimination. At the same time union women bring real, down-to-earth issues to the feminist movement. The blend is important...
...that he would carefully study all of them before making his recommendations to Bok and the Corporation. But in the course of a meeting with over 40 university financial managers and money men from almost every major foundation or pension fund--all of whom had a slightly different blend of the three alternatives--Putnam became intrigued with the idea of setting up an internal management company for Harvard. The idea was a novel one for universities and the possibilities for management innovation that internal management posed were unique for any large endowment...