Word: blende
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...contrasting stories in this issue: "The King," by Mr. Cummings, and "Fools," by Mr. Morse. It is not too much to say of "The King" that it is one of the very best stories published for some time in any college dream type; taking advantage of the form to blend richly poetical prose with a delicate sympathy for a child's fantasies. "Fools" is better than its abrupt title might lead one to expect. It is a realistic tale of a country flirt and her two admirers--one of them the village idiot. The climax is a really admirable touch...
Great care has been observed in so voicing the stops that each shall blend with the other without losing its own individuality. The aim of the builders has been toward flexibility and virility. The orchestral oboe, English horn, and the clarinet are unusually good reproductions or their orchestral prototypes. The diapasons are sonorous, the reeds commanding and brilliant, the strings crisp and represented in great variety...
...their aversion to authority and organization, their respect for nature, their deep religions sensibility. To these people the doctrines of Gotoma and his greater successor, Buddha, seemed not unsound. The two leaders believed in the subtle extension of personality, the doctrine that perfect individuals must sooner or later blend into one great whole. Each man must strive for that after-life into which he can pour his whole being. In this way he will obtain the cosmic consciousness which will enable him to look back upon his various former states of existence...
Meanwhile another idea was growing up, that of law; and these two ideas, the first of the prophets and pertaining to the relation of the race to God, the second of the scribes and concerning the government of society by law, blend in the last part of the Old Testament...
...have two ideas in our minds, the stronger one will expel the weaker; but if they be of the same strength, they will blend, and when we recall one we can recall the other. The ease with which we can, after remembering one idea, recall the other, depends on the strength of the blending, and the strength of the blending depends on the strength of the ideas. Strong impressions make strong ideas, and all we can do to facilitate remembrance is, therefore, to strengthen the impressions. This can be done in two ways, first, by concentrating the attention...