Word: mishmash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is no prospect, however, that Australia will become an ethnic mishmash like Brazil, as some critics of the new immigration policy have charged; after all, the country still accepts many more whites than nonwhites. Few of the nonwhites are black, although Australia has admitted 250 black American immigrants in the past five years...
...used music, which he has been working on for the past eight years; dance, which his wife Mimi Kagan choreographed with the same fidelity to Beckett's spirit that Kim shows throughout the work; film; and actors. But this is no multi-media mishmash. Each medium, sparse and perfect, is fully capable of transmitting on its own Beckett's humble yet invincible commitment to struggle. Only rarely does more than one of the seven fine musicians-two of them percussion-play at a time. With them, and alone, sings an incredibly clear soprano, Benita Valente. Her voice rises...
There is an amazing degree of agreement about the nation's public welfare system: almost no one denies that the federal-state-local mishmash operates to keep millions on the dole, deprives many others of needed help, vexes taxpayers and tolerates a wide range of inequities and abuses that cry out for reform. There was every indication last week, however, that the cry would not be heeded very soon. The Administration's 14-month-old proposal to overhaul the system has reached a legislative impasse...