Word: blended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fling and consequences form the action of The Pencil of God, an engrossing novel about the damage wrought by African voodoo on middle-class Haitians. Product of a miniature literary renaissance in Haiti, The Pencil of God gleams with quaint freshness, a strange blend of Haitian folklore and Western sophistication. To many U.S. readers the world of Diogène Cyprien may, in fact, seem almost outlandish: here the symbols of voodoo and Roman Catholicism merge in half-enlightened minds, men are possessed by implacable spirits they cannot control, and the day-to-day world is seen as an acting...
...Arthur Rank has turned out a restrained cops and robbers movie, called "The Blue Lamp." He tries to make his murder-mystery unusual by adding some authentic shots of Scotland Yard at work. But the result is a poor blend of half documentary and half fiction; neither half is very good...
General Foods Corp. last week announced that it will move its headquarters and 1,300 employees from the center of Manhattan to suburban White Plains. Within the next three years, General foods plans to build a garden-type office building on a 48-acre plot "to blend with the gently rolling wooded site." The move said General Foods' Board Chairman Clarence Francis, was not influenced by any fear that New York might be bombed. For ten years, said he, General Foods has been planning to get its executives under one roof and to give its New York office workers...
...Advisers issued a stern warning: "Care must be exercised not to swing between extremes from day to day, asserting one day that everything will be accomplished by voluntary cooperation and asserting the next day that it is too late for anything but compulsion. Under the American system, a constant blending of authority . . . and flexibility is essential ... If we ever lose the desire or ability to achieve this blend we shall have lost the greatest single asset in our total strength as a nation...
Warm Ashes. If the abstractionists were mostly dry, the more traditional painters were soggy. Even the much-admired ones often succeeded by mere competence. Henry Koerner's blend of banality and obscurity, Fire on the Beach, was an ashen canvas warmed by brilliant drawing alone. John Koch's The Monument was curious in content and cottony in color, but it had a complexity and depth of composition that few moderns could bring off. Isabel Bishop's Nude Bending (one of the show's few nudes) was so dimly painted it looked like a fading wraith...