Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hallmark. Aggressive salesmanship has been a Brooke Bond hallmark ever since Lancashireborn Arthur Brooke founded the company in 1869. (He added Bond to the firm's name to make it sound more upper class.) Arthur Brooke was one of the first British tea merchants to market a uniform blend of tea and to sell directly to retailers instead of to middlemen. Arthur's son Gerald, who began a 40-year reign as chairman of the company in 1912, made Brooke Bond's red delivery vans so much of a national institution that British toy stores sell miniature...
Most Reed students come from California, followed by Oregon, Washington and New York. The universal lure is Reed's blend of social and academic freedom. "Dad dreamed of Caltech," says one boy from Los Angeles. "I didn't want to leave out the humanities, and Portland is a convenient 1,000 miles from home." The dominance of outsiders is one of Reed's chief problems with Portland. Harvard-trained President Richard H. Sullivan on the one hand exults in his students' hot loyalty to "the Reed community," and on the other laments their disdain for Portland...
Which is a good deal of a shame: Ian Fleming is of all ducks floating on the scummy waters of the mindless prose the most sittings--no pulp writer of today has come up with quite his blend of the compulsive will to violence, the animal reference to food and women as the spoils of power, the swinging Birchite outlook on the Cold War, the deliberate abuse of any rational plot line...
...very articulate group of principals that Mr. Chapman has been able to assemble. Mr. Haskell, the Valentino (and the Alceste of George Hamlin's Misanthrope this summer), displays an admirable versatility simply by appearing in his part. But he is more than versatile: his Valentino is a first-rate blend of the faithful and the faltering, the amused and the bemused. Miss Stearns, the Angelica, has a bit of a squint, but it is not distracting--indeed, it transforms her seeming aloofness into something serene and untroubled...
Imagine, if you will, for one heart-stopping moment a production of The Yeomen of the Guard that included Doris Day as Phoebe Meryll, Joey Bishop as Jack Point, Jerry Lewis as Wilfrid Shadbolt, and a Colonel Fairfax whose singing voice is an engaging blend of Richard Dyer-Bennett and Rudy Vallee; and having in this manner proved yourself capable of the requisite amount of mental contortion, return with the now to consider briefly a new production of the Yeomen by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players that I and others sat through last night...