Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life, James penetrated into the citadels of Old World learning. His immensely successful lectures at Oxford and Edinburgh, perhaps more than anything else, demonstrated that America had come of age intellectually. Europe and America, the sciences and the humanities, nineteenth century and twentieth century--in James they all blend, in James they seem to find their finest mediator...
...Borrowed Blend. Honest to God is a blend of ideas borrowed from some of the century's most provocative Protestant theologians. Like German Biblical Critic Rudolf Bultmann, Robinson regards the virgin birth and the heaven-above-hell-below framework of Scripture as religious myths; he argues that the essential Gospel message must be "demythologized" by liberating it from antiquated supernatural language. Rejecting the Biblical image of a transcendent God in the sky, Robinson suggests that Christians think of God the way Existentialist Theologian Paul Tillich does: as the "ground of all being...
...Better Blends. A good example of the coal-rail partnership is the Norfolk & Western, which runs coal directly to port out of the rich Appalachian fields. In operation at Hampton Roads is the first of two units of N. & W.'s $25 million coal Pier 6, the world's largest coal-loading fa cility. Its huge conveyor belts are capable of carrying coal to ships at a maximum rate of 20,000 tons an hour. Among oth er modern improvements, the pier also "custom-blends" coal for customers, not unlike a careful mixing of Turkish and Virginia tobaccos...
...other popular brands, intends eventually to remove even the few outside brands it now permits on its shelves. The chain's own Scotch, Black Swan, sells for $4.50 a fifth v. $5.60 for Johnnie Walker Red Label. To undersell Nescafe instant coffee (43?-46?), Prisunic imported a Dutch blend, slapped on its own label and a 40? price tag. "Our aim," says General Manager Jacques Gueden, 52, "is the same as that of American discount houses-to undersell small-store competitors...
...combination of smoother flavor, lower alcoholic strength and lighter color. The most dramatic and expensive response to this trend has just been made by Seagrams, the world's biggest distiller. Seagrams is retiring its high-selling ($50 million a year) Calvert Reserve and replacing it with a lighter blend of 50 whiskies and aged spirits called Calvert Extra...