Word: blending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blend of unblushing sentiment and desiccating humor smacks strongly of Dickens at his best. Its success (and that success was so great the first night in Boston that it drew out some dozen curtain-calls) is due in large part to the masterly work of Frederick Leicester who, besides staging the play, plays the principal role. When there is so perfect a coincidence of character and actor, no criticism is called for. Peggy Simpson in the part of the youngest of the corrosive trio is impish and irreverent to perfection; Jane Sterling makes an excellent middle sister, a beautiful, exuberant...
Gist of Author Lin's philosophy is that Occidentals need to be taught "a wise disenchantment and a hearty enjoyment of ife." As a measuring rod for gauging the well-balanced man and nation. Dr. Lin submits a formula based on a blend of realism ("R"), dreams ("D"), humor ("H"), sensibility ("S"), qualified by 4 (abnormally high), 3 (high), 2 (fair) and 1 (low). The ideal formula, says Dr. Lin, is R3D2H352 (a middle-of-the-road balance). Nearest to this ideal are the English, one point low on humor and sensibility. The Germans, Japanese and Russians make...
...impended (which was often), Riabouchinska leaped frantically, shook dazzling tail feathers against the bizarre, glaringly-colored backgrounds of Nathalie Gontcharova. With the often repetitious opera airs of Rimsky-Korsakov cut to ballet length, Le Coq d'Or made good colorful sense, its choreography by Michel Fokine a happy blend of pantomime, burlesque, Russian boot kicks and the classic style at which the Monte Carlo troupe excels-dancing sur les pointes (on the toes...
...been more rigid and systematic than the Government's, which occasionally lapses into periods of semi-freedom. This usually happens when news is thin. But when a correspondent tries to telephone a big story from Madrid, the receiving offices in Paris and London often get a curious blend of bells, roars and radio speeches This sort of thing is so hard on the average correspondent's nerves, that he usually sends most of his copy by telegraph, where the censorship is automatic and predictable. A little palm-greasing will sometimes get a dispatch by courier over the border...
...grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely figured the more elegant the packet, the cheaper the price, the shoddier the quality. Drugs, another...