Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gusty prose. But there is also a grimly pathetic story: the racking hardships of LeBlanche's disaster-struck past and the haunting horror of his wife's death at the hands of his paranoid father, whom LeBlanche himself is forced to kill in turn. With this amalgam of somber tragedy and high humor, Author Cuomo probes an ancient and great theme: the growth of a man in the teeth of fortune's callous blows. Result: a variegated, sometimes unusual, always hearty novel...
California, which is the only crew with a reasonable chance to beat Harvard, has drawn less stiff opposition for the first heat. Cal's top rival should be the newly born Laconia "A" boat, an amalgam of the best rowers from several college crews in the east and midwest...
...Great, he was born in Constantinople and trained, by imperial edict, for a career in the church. But in the course of a visit to Nicomedia, he came under the influence of apostate theoreticians secretly working toward a return to the old faith-or rather, to an idealized amalgam of paganism and philosophy that they took for the faith of the ancient world. Julian wanted to be a teacher, and might well have been if his half-brother Gallus (whom Vidal paints as almost a parody of the Roman voluptuary) had not been executed for misgovernment, leaving the Emperor Constantius...
...record. He plowed through the Hull papers in the Library of Congress, the unpublished papers of some of Hull's State Department colleagues. Pratt has written a spare, straightforward narrative that steers shy of judgments. But he does lead a reader to the inescapable conclusion that Hull-an amalgam of idealism, caution, and at times heroic stubbornness-was not up to the job of Secretary of State, even though he held it for nearly twelve years, longer than anyone else...
...life, there's hope" is more an axiom than a maxim. Above all, Rockefeller's Oregon win increased what has been called the "scatteration" of strength in the Republican presidential picture. And in so doing, it greatly increased the possibility that the so-called Republican kingmakers-the amalgam of corporation executives, party professionals and publishers-who have so far been mere spectators at ringside, may yet find it necessary to get in and referee the bout...