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Popular passions were aroused on both sides of the Rhine, and it was asking much to ask a handful of men to devise a formula that would make the Germans strong enough to worry the Russians, yet keep them restrained enough to comfort the French. A blend of such opposites could not be attained through some safe, ingenious blend of legalisms and restrictions. For the Western allies, and for the French in particular, one of the men best qualified to discuss Europe's military needs had this advice on the London Conference's eve. "If you are going...
...Lonely Crowd contains a typological menagerie. The occupants of the cages are not real people, who are almost always a blend of a blend of types. But real people and real politics can be understood better by walking through Riesman's zoo, reading the signs on the cages, and looking at the occupants...
...bull's ears and its tail, symbolic of a top performance. For his second fight Girón drew in succession three fightless Ferdinands. Rather than cheat the crowd, Girón stepped out and offered personally to buy a fourth bull (cost: about $500). Again, with a blend of perfect art and courage, he earned two ears and the tail. "This bullfighter," wrote Critic Curro Castañares, "valiant beyond all possibility of exaggeration, is of the artistic order of the great matadors...
...joiners of Waltham, Mass, whittled out wooden models for L. W. Gushing & Sons' custom-made weather vanes, they had no pretensions of being artists. If they added an occasional creative or imaginative touch to these practical instruments, they were merely trying, as one craftsman put it, to "blend the useful and the agreeable...
Died. Irwin Edman, 57, witty, erudite chairman (1945-53) of Columbia University's philosophy department (a critic called him a "blend of Plato, Santayana and Manhattan") and frequent panelist on radio's Invitation to Learning and TV's Author Meets the Critics; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...