Word: mix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city, close to an already developed metropolitan area, or a wholly new urban center erected on virgin land in much the same way that Chandigarh, Canberra and Brasilia were built. For social and economic as well as political reasons, U.S. planners say that the towns should provide a population mix of wealthy, middle class and poor, of black and white and of commuters and resident workers...
...challenging established firms with exuberance and even effrontery are the builders of conglomerates?those multipurpose, multi-industry companies that specialize in hodgepodge acquisitions. They are often put together in a seemingly haphazard tangle, with only finances for a common bond. In the modern conglomerate, oil and water do mix. So do steel and airlines, theaters and tobacco, chemicals and clothes, meat-packing and insurance. Such unlikely combinations have repeatedly paid off?at least...
With unwarranted assurance, psychologists have frequently extrapolated from rat performances in mazes all manner of conclusions about man. Because rats can tolerate a good deal of alcohol, for instance-ounce for ounce, more than man-experimenters have thrown doubt on the longstanding conclusion that man and drink dangerously mix. Insights into the human capacity for stress, based on experiments with placid laboratory rats, falter before the unrehearsed wild rat's total inability to endure any man-imposed stress...
...mood of sadness for the desolation of spirit that has fallen on the land. Yet for all his bitterness, O'Casey keeps his broad Irish sodbusters quirkily alive. Like his symbolic rooster, he weaves his own warm, life-affirming way through the play with a magic mix of phrases and cadences...
...with TB 15 years ago. "I can't bear anything symbolic." Jackson protests that she paints only small pictures because her technique is too poor to allow her to paint big ones. In fact, her pettiness is a positive dimension, making what might otherwise be a fairly conventional mix of Rene Magritte and Grandma Moses seem witty, bizarre and remote...