Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi Bankers Association President Nat Rogers told the Kosciusko Chamber of Commerce: "We must recognize that we have a problem and come to grips with it. We must obey the law, keep in step with the times, and blend our enthusiasm with realism and honesty...
...voices blend together," says Sutherland, "is so exciting for us. It's fantastic." The audience agreed. Sutherland as Queen Semiramide was her usual dazzling self, but Horne matched her roulade for roulade, trill for trill, most enchantingly in the final act in which the two coloraturas melded voices in a breathtakingly lovely duet. Marilyn exhibited a regal voice that spans two octaves, warm and bronze-toned in the middle, vibrantly brilliant at the top. With the diction of a newscaster, she breezed through the complicated Rossini libretto as easily as a mother singing a nursery rhyme...
There Stern finds himself pitted against just about everything, from his do-it-yourself bumbling to the anti-Semite neighbor who knocks down his wife and calls his son a "kike". Author Friedman lets fact blend with fantasy to make Stern at once laughable and very sad both real and wry. Friedman, 34, has a promising talent if it doesn't get trapped by too much sameness of subject. His recent second novel, A Mother's Kisses (TIME, Sept. 4), a caricature of the child-devouring Yiddisher Mama, was funnier than Stern, but a good bit safer...
Contemporary glass attempts inspiration without narrative. It is also more part and parcel of the architecture. In a blend of concrete and glass called Be-tonglas, Loire melds translucent chunks of 623 shades, provided by the Saint-Gobain glassworks, with concrete forms. Free as a mosaic maker, he often chips away the edges of his glass slabs, making them into odd lenses that scatter light haphazardly...
...National Press Club speech, Sato offered his own oblique explanation of why the U.S. commitment in Asia had become so troublesome. "In Asia there in an Asian way, a blend that results from the interplay of Asia's historical, geographic and other forces, and which defies full comprehension when seen through the rational eyes of Western people," said Sato. "A spirit of tolerance and harmony, in particular, is essential in dealing with the problems of Asia. The establishment of peace and freedom in this area requires enormous effort, wisdom and time...