Word: amalgamation
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...meant little to him, and the summit of his clerical ambition was reached when he became Cardinal-Archbishop of Cracow. As Pope, he is a Pole, as Roncalli was an Italian. But both men, as instinctive regionalists, have repudiated modern nationalism and have tended to see Europe as an amalgam of historic regions -- a microcosm of a world of peoples rather than of nations. A regionalist finds it much easier to develop true internationalism than a nationalist, and this is one reason why both men were at ease as head of a global organization, speaking urbi et orbi...
...remarkable gains, a sense of precariousness haunts the new black middle class and the art it creates and takes to heart. The economic advancement remains newfound and insecure. Hence the new black art displays a peculiar love-hate relation to the defiant culture of the inner city: an anxious amalgam of intimacy and enmity. Beneath it all is the black bourgeoisie's deep-seated fear that they're only a couple of paychecks away from the fate of the underclass...
...Tennis and Croquet Club for a sentimental valedictory on tennis' most hallowed turf. No expectations. Just an opportunity to bask one more time in the genteel applause of the faithful at Centre Court. After all, Martina is 37, and the serve no longer sizzles. Wimbledon and its slippery green amalgam of fescue and ryegrass are now the domain of five-time champion Steffi Graf, 25. It's a surface for the young and the restless. On grass either you are quick or you are quickly dismissed...
Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison '62, who took over as dean of the revamped schools in the late 1970s presided over the its quick expansion from a small institution to a huge amalgam of programs, professors and brand-new angular buildings...
...about invading people's privacy. He wonders if he should some day go outside of his own life and begin filming the lives of others. "It's something I'm coming to terms with,' he says. His 'film in progress" at the moment, "Six O'Clock News," is an "amalgam of the two approaches:" autobiography and external narrative. In it McElwee seeks to interview people he sees on the news, exploring what lies behind the "ten second news bite...