Word: blending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mysterious blend of awkwardness and grace...
...flesh; Bloom the average half-intelligent, half-sensual man. Like ancient Troy, Ulysses is many cities on one foundation. If the plain reader keeps on digging he may discover that each of Ulysses' 18 episodes is written in its own style, in which Joyce has tried to blend the minds of the characters, the place, atmosphere, feeling of the time of day. Each episode turns on an organ of the body, an art and a particular symbol. Thus in the 11th episode (the Sirens), the scene of which is the Concert Room at 4 p. m., the bodily organ...
...sought after agency of Berry Bros, of London, who have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous for their "London...
...simple graciousness of the life he could not deny, but it seemed to him also profoundly futile. He seems, however, to have concealed this opinion from the President and allowed him to talk unchallenged of how Harvard had achieved the ultimate purification and refinement of the Anglican culture, that blend of classicism and refined Christianity, with a graceful monarchist devotion...
...land or water. (The control car is shaped like a boat.) Another engine operates a blower to force air into the envelope and help maintain its shape. The third drives a windlass for lowering and raising a sub-cloud car. The sub-cloud car, streamlined and camouflaged to blend into an overcast sky, can be lowered 1,000 ft. below the ship for observation and photography. A telephone wire runs through the core of the suspension cable. Contract speed of the TC-13 was not made public, is supposed to be about...