Word: hybridize
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...Iowa Congressman and said, "That's Bill Scherle, he's agriculture," Brezhnev leaped at Scherle, looking up a full head above himself. How are crop prospects? Brezhnev wanted to know. Yes, he remembered Roswell Garst, who lives in Scherle's district, the man who had brought hybrid seed corn to Russia. They were studying productivity of crops and cattle-building up, Brezhnev told Scherle. When he moved on, Brezhnev left no doubt that during summit No. 4-that would be in 1975-he would like Richard Nixon around to take him out to the corn belt...
...fuzzy hair of the inhabitants. When the Spanish claimed the north coast 19 years later, they called it New Guinea, because they thought the natives resembled those on the Guinea Coast of Africa. Since the two territories became jointly administered by Australia in 1949, they have gone by the hybrid mouthful of Papua New Guinea. The region is scheduled to become a single, self-governing nation in December, and the search is on for a new name. But there is one major problem: what heritage should it reflect...
...generally: Les Demoiselles d'A vignon. His eclecticism -another of the virtuoso's traits-produced incessant raids on other styles, from Pompeian murals, 17th century Dutch etchings and Ingres drawings to Dogon masks and Mogul miniatures. Few great artists since Rembrandt had amassed, and used, such a hybrid pile of objects from art or nature as Picasso; variety was his sauna. He had a mysterious capacity, now documented through an almost limitless range of motifs and graphic flourishes, to become whatever caught his attention...
Granted that the show is an entertainment hybrid, Writer-Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett is unstinting in his professionalism. Aided by Grover Dale, Bob Avian and Tommy Tune, Bennett's dances have a carnal thrust that evokes aspects of both the play and work life of the city. One balloon-saturated number featuring the elongatedly energetic 6-ft. 6-in. Tommy Tune is a bit like meeting E.E. Cummings' mythical "goat-footed balloonMan" in Central Park in the spring...
...Harvard students after a riot on a subway car bringing them back from a Boston hockey game, and the arrest of a Harvard student for passing out socialist literature in Harvard Square. The latter, the paper noted, stood trial in Cambridge Court after "One Irishman, one Italian, and one hybrid" had been convicted of drunkenness. Later in the year, a headline told Harvard: "Director of Fogg Art Museum Receives Threatening Letters Denouncing Late Purchase of Paintings--Suspect Black Hand...