Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enactment was a curious blend of 18th and late 20th centuries. Because of protests by Indian groups, the raiders wore no feathers or war paint...
BROTHERS AND SISTERS (Capricorn). A masterly essay from the Allman Brothers in how to blend rock, jazz and white rural Southern blues...
...between tribes fighting with spears, clubs, bows and arrows in disputes over land, pigs and women, in approximately that order. A lingering appetite for cannibalism is suspected in the remote interior where Stone Age conditions prevail Witch doctors still thrive and sorcery is practiced. The cargo cults, a weird blend of religious faith and economic frustration, claim 60,000 members. They believe that they can acquire such desirable Western luxuries as radios and canned beer by practicing certain rites like assembling on mountaintops, where they construct mock airplanes and await the gifts from heaven...
...finest creators of children's books alive. He researches historic subjects (The Erie Canal, London Bridge Is Falling Down) for months, then meticulously re-creates an era in delicate pen-and-ink with pale watercolor washes. This time, with his customary blend of beauty and utility (opposite page), Spier presents the 25-hour bombardment of Fort McHenry...
...Weelkes was followed by a series of four pieces by John Dowland (1563-1626), performed by the Greenwood Consort. The four instrumentalists in this excellent group play a variety of authentic Renaissance instruments. I enjoy the lovely blend of sound possible with old instruments when well-played, and the Greenwood Consort plays them very well indeed...