Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front runner for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, Michigan's Governor plainly feels that the time has come to grope his way into the unfamiliar arena of foreign policy. His Cleveland speech, with its echoes of Senator William Fulbright's "arrogance of power" theme, was a curious blend of old-fashioned Midwestern isolationism and the liberal's equally irrelevant preoccupation with world opinion. Even on the specific issue of Viet Nam, Romney could only offer tired generalities...
...Canny Blend. It is theoretically conceivable that any new boss at Berkeley might have restored some measure of order to the campus. But Heyns unquestionably brought to the task a canny and successful blend of firmness and an open mind. He first exerted his authority symbolically by moving into the former president's mansion on campus, long vacant and long shunned by his predecessors. Then he displayed it in practice by acquiring as much freedom from President Kerr, who operates out of Berkeley, as that enjoyed by chancellors of the university's eight other campuses. That achieved, Heyns...
...party that slips ashore to commandeer a launch and stays to persuade the island's crotchety nor'easterners that a full-scale invasion has begun. Taking over a tailor shop, subduing a telephone operator (Tessie O'Shea), Arkin's response to crisis is a cunning blend of caution, mad sweetness and reluctant acts of aggression, all booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving English is a comic wonder, spoken with...
...carefully eschewed support of extreme right-wing causes in favor of a pragmatic middle-of-the-road approach-and his managers have made certain that the far right has no place in his campaign organization. Speaking to housewives in vegetable-growing Salinas, he conveyed just the right blend of humor and concern at the rising cost of living. "You ladies," he charmed, "know that if you stand in front of the asparagus counter at the supermarket these days, it's cheaper to eat money." To the charge that he is without experience in government, he has a simple, homely...
...bearded rabbi father (who chastely refused to look a woman in the face and could not, insists Author Singer, recognize his own wife) learnedly ruled his roost. He also ruled his rabbinical court, the Beth Din, an institution that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified "the celestial council of justice, God's judgment, absolute mercy." One time a miserable pauper, who was forced to keep the corpse of his wife...