Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven Yalemen and seven Vassar girls who meet at least once a week for dinner at a hideaway about halfway between both campuses. Seems that it's strictly platonic. U.S. campus mores being what they are, Vaya may be somewhat oldfashioned. But then, Yale has always been a blend of solid tradition and cautious innovation...
Stretched too far to be believable, Canvas is the kind of overdrawn foolishness that frequently proves diverting. Its existential blend of sex, symbolism and comedy reaches a bizarre climax when Horst takes Catherine to a party at his mother's villa. In his mother's bedroom, crowning a marriage proposal to the girl whose favors can be had for the price of an espresso, he generously covers her nude body with some of Mama's 10,000-lire banknotes. The door opens. In sails Bette, rococo-eyed, jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling...
...such as -?????. Each of the 44 I.T.A. symbols represents only one sound, and children tackle I.T.A.-spelled words in full confidence that what they see in print is what they say in sound. As for the actual teaching method, teachers may use either phonics or look-say or a blend of both. "I.T.A. is not a new method of teaching," explains Inventor Pitman, "but it is a new medium of teaching...
...Clyde, a bimonthly magazine for men started by Gerald Rothberg, a 26-year-old bachelor who has sensibly clung to his job on Esquire (promotion manager). An equivocating blend of Esquire (semi-intellectual articles) and Playboy (semi-revealed torsos), Clyde in two issues has not yet decided which approach it prefers...
...circus to watch a dancing bear," said the moderator cynically. Perhaps some had, but Malcolm X was no dancing bear, no exotic specimen of a Near-Eastern religion, no man to be clinically observed. Flanked by three docile bodyguards Malcolm baffled his Leverett House audience with an oddly-paced blend of demagoguery and rationality, haughtiness and humor, sham history and acute analysis, utopian policies and realpolitik...