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Ammons' finest poems meld the hugest images with the most familiar speech to make his points with tight concision...
...write cohesive laws that will clearly define Burns' "strategic industries or enterprises." Certainly there should be no investment large enough to enable a foreigner to dic tate policy in U.S. defense industries or in transportation, tele vision networks and other communications industries. The problem for Congress is to meld somehow the interests of OPEC investors and the American desire to maintain unquestioned di rection of sensitive industries...
...which Pusser, as played by look-alike Actor Joe Don Baker, wielded a big stick against wrongdoers with devastating effect. Last week Pusser, 36, died when his new sports car ran off Highway 64 near Selmer, Tenn. Ironically, hours before his death, he had signed a contract to meld art and life by playing himself in the movie sequel to Walking Tall...
...1930s, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers made the singing cowboy a national hero. With the mobilization of the entire population in World War II, regional music styles began to meld. A languorous hybrid known as country-and-western was born, in which the still simple music of the Southeast was blended with the more sophisticated instrumentation (steel guitar, drums, even horns) of the Far West. This wedding of styles produced, among others, Merle Travis, Webb Pierce and the late Hank Williams. The rise of rock 'n' roll (notably Elvis Presley, who began his career singing country-and-western...
...Colony. That leaves the people who look inward, the mystics. Thompson approves of the effort of Yogi Gopi Krishna and German Physicist C.F. von Weizsäcker to meld Eastern wisdom with Western science. Such a union represents Thompson's ideal of Pythagorean science, involving "cosmological thinkers for whom art, religion and science are different idioms of the single language of contemplation"-in short, what Thompson regards as a means to the new planetary culture...