Word: mix
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obscures both the origins of student rebellion here and the changes it has undergone in the past year. The very real events which quickened the anger of students--most notably the war in Indochina--are purposely forgotten by the technicolor pictures, the catchy, cute Times, the mock attempt to mix levity and analysis. The vapid generalization and the smug cliche vie for supremacy, and the product passes for hard-won analysis...
...suffering increasingly from the familiar affliction of the suddenly famous-a mix of narcissism, self-hatred and wretched insecurity. Everywhere she went she traveled in an impenetrable cage of loneliness...
...pointing toward a New Jerusalem achieved through knowledge and World Federalism-a vision he constantly conjured up to dispel his chronic pessimism. A colleague recalls Wells during this period emerging from his study after a day's writing and chanting "Here we come over the High Pamirs-and mix with the Aryan peoples...
Minnesota's economy is a fairly well-balanced mix of manufacturing, agriculture and services. Fur, northern pine, wheat and iron ore once were the dominant forces. Manufacturing displaced farming as the major source of income in 1952. Though farm and forest products remain a vital part of the economy, the gap has been widening. Over the past ten years, Minnesota has become one of the nation's leading "brain-industry" centers?more than 170 electronic and related technical businesses now employ more than 70,000 people. Food companies, however, still lead the state in employment. Minneapolis-based companies produce more...
...picture, a series of strung together images, missions, and massage parlors, pancake houses, and waitresses, barren and dull. The rhythm section plods its way through a descending progression, only to break into an uptempo jazz styled passage: walking bass, spiralling saxophone solo blended into the overall mix, piano chords cementing the whole, the Oakland Symphony Orchestra Chorus offering incongruous styles throughout. The vocal is subdued, though not without subtleties of phrasing, and intention...