Word: blende
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...briefly, gracefully, shrewdly, with anecdote and flashes of insight, Hughes invites humane and practical reflection upon the most mysterious and important public office in the world. When the reader is through, he not only knows a good deal about the powers and restraints of the presidency and the peculiar blend of qualities necessary for leadership, he thinks of all U.S. Presidents as contemporaries...
Architect I.M. Pei designed the complex to blend with the surrounding area. "Because this is a relatively large piece of land, we are able to maintain the size and bulk of the Harvard Houses," he said. The main building, at 55 feet, will equal Eliot and Kirkland Houses in height...
...first novels I read as a child was Mark Twain's classic novel of juvenile adventure, Tom Sawyer. Its unique blend of noble deeds, perilous cave exploration, playing 'hooky,' and otherwise escaping the realities of life--all intermingled with the inescapable wit of Twain--kept this city boy from Detroit fascinated through many of his grade school years. Perhaps, then, it was deja vu--memories of happy hours spent with Tom, Huck Finn, Becky Thatcher, Aunt Polly, and company--that motivated me to see what the Reader's Digest, making its debut as a film producer, had done...
...invasion," the U.S. was making the same mistake--perhaps intentionally--that it would later make in neighboring Cambodia. The Pathet Lao were not North Vietnamese in disguise, but native Laotians who had attempted since their movement was founded in 1950 to achieve a blend of revolution, independence and economic development for the benefit of the Laotian people...
Perhaps it has something to do with that old Southern blend of agrarian ide alism and the-18th century romance with the noble savage. Or maybe it is just all that ambling through the tall grass. In any case, Southern writers have had a particular weakness for seeing beauty and naked truth through the eye of the innocent. Robert Early, 34, a North Carolinian and former Benedic tine monk, uses the other senses as well...