Word: blendings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...McGee mixture is an agreeable blend of boat lore, suspense, machismo, sex and lighthearted sadism. The Scarlet Ruse turns on the theft of $500,000 worth of rare postage stamps. In The Turquoise Lament, McGee learns that a thieving Florida lawyer blocks the forward progress of justice-and of the plot. He invades the miscreant's country estate, eases him from the middle of a disgraceful orgy, binds him and drops him live into a freshly dug backwoods grave-a marvel of vengeful fantasy. Lawyers are the schoolyard bullies of modern society, against whom no ordinary child dares battle...
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
Most teams are a blend of various athletic talents. Tackle football teams are composed of former Harvard players, old high school players, and those who have long awaited their opportunity to shine on the gridiron. Winthrop's championship soccer team includes a tutor from Scandinavia, and James Vorenberg '49, master of Dunster House, has participated in several sports...
...breath control was excellent, and his technique polished--unfortunately the orchestra did not always match his standard, though the blend between them was good. The cadenza, exciting and wellplayed, was marred by a lack of communication between the soloist and the orchestra, which came in either too late or too soon, creating about five seconds of confusion before soloist-conductor-orchestra communication was reestablished...
Jenkins said that he held no animosity towards Harrison, and that as an individual Harrison had been well liked. Jenkins called Harrison a "beautiful person" but said that this personality could not make up for his deficiencies as a coach. Jenkins added that a coach must blend leadership and ability into his makeup and that Harrison failed to do this...