Word: blend
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...Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
...masterly summary of the children's book situation in this country. It had just the right blend of historical and contemporary, commercial and literary...
...melodrama. Its only valid "meaning" is as a glorification of human courage. Its primary appeal is not to the understanding or the esthetic sense, but to whatever in us is receptive to sheer physical action. But as such, it is a very fine movie, a highly effective blend of tension and irony...
...liked the Greek blend of reason and passion, the serene acceptance of humanity's lot coupled with a fierce resolution to better one's own. Out of genuine affection and twenty-twenty vision, Author Lee has fashioned the best of the few U.S. books about Greece, even including Henry Miller's dithyrambic tribute, The Colossus of Maroussi...
...word shrinks and the drawings loom larger, more and more writer-artists are becoming the big moneymakers of children's books. Holling C. Holling (Seabird, Pagoo) deals with America, past and present, in large, posterlike illustrations and detailed marginal sketches that make a handsome blend of the factual and fanciful. Robert McCloskey (Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder) catches the stillness of a Maine morning before a storm, with both his brush and typewriter. Ludwig Bemelmans has won as many adults as children with his Madeline stories and his Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn...