Word: blends
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prediction & Reaction. According to Dr. Sheldon, a blend of "morphs" himself, people's temperaments are apt to fit their physiques.* Endomorphs are likely to be amiable and slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...
...Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert hall with new electronic tricks picked up from radio engineers. With the help of a battery of microphones turned up or down for the proper blend ("We couldn't do it without the microphone"), Kostelanetz' music took on "sounds and sonorities that didn't exist before...
...just as infantry fighting has no plot. There is no special hero; Narrator Considine is just a member of one squad who Jived to tell the story. But there is tension, excitement and the imminence of death that needs no assist from tricks of fiction. The result is a blend as true as Bill Mauldin's best drawings and Ernie Pyle's best dispatches...
...Occasionally, as when he describes a duck shoot, his writing has flashes of its old, matchless exactness. However thin his story, he keeps it in motion and even invests it with a sense of potential explosion, though the explosion never comes off. The famed Hemingway style, once a poetic blend of tension and despair, is hardly more than a parody of itself. The love scenes are rather embarrassing than beautiful, the language of love forced and artificial. With his truculence, his defensive toughness, his juvenile arrogance, Hemingway's hero quickly becomes a bore who forfeits the reader...
...lasted French's lifetime, and beyond. His smooth blend of realism with classical overtones has made his work grow steadily in popularity if not in critical reputation. During World War II, the Minute Man adorned millions of U.S. stamps and war bond posters. Later French sculptures, like the John Harvard who sits pondering his philanthropy in Harvard Yard and the Lincoln of Washington's Lincoln Memorial, had long since become as familiar to Americans' as Longfellow's Hiawatha...