Word: mishmash
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trick Count. The U.S. delegation of 630 was a mishmash of the devout (including Paul Robeson Jr.), the trusting, and the curious. There was also a cadre of professionally coached antiCommunists, including a young American scientist, J. A. Ransahoff, who at a party-line seminar on the atom stole the Red thunder with a facts-and-figures presentation of the U.S. program for the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
Along with the audience, the sounds emitted by the nation's 3,779 AM and FM radio stations have changed too. In place of the nostalgic big names and expensive-talent dramatic shows, most U.S. stations blare forth a starless mishmash of hip music, skimmed news and honey-voiced disk jockeys...
...least attempt to shrug off blame for past letdowns, spoke candidly but without hand-wringing about the present, mapped a hard line for future progress. This week he sent off a letter to the U.S.S.R.'s Premier Bulganin, thus stepped into a world scene that had become a mishmash of creeping neutralism and phony Communist peace propaganda, and managed both to seize the peace initiative and restore the perspective of the cold...
...trite one that no one can swim in the sea of life without the water wings of illusion. At its best, Some Came Running does reflect the cultural claustrophobia of small-town life and the personality quirks that sometimes go with it. At its frequent worst, it is a mishmash of joyless fornication, head-splitting hangovers, and a neo-Dreiserian conviction that life itself is a four-letter word...
...Sunday afternoons. The CBS schedule is so tight that the four Frank Capra-produced Bell Telephone science shows had to move over to NBC. Splashiest of all will probably be The Du Pont Show of the Month, offering ten 90-minute spectaculars: Paul Gregory's Crescendo, a mishmash of American music with Ethel Merman, Rex Harrison, Louis Armstrong, Carol Channing and Peggy Lee; Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper; a musical edition of Junior Miss; and a Cole PorterS. J. Perelman musicollaboration on Alladin. To plug the Ford Motor Co.'s new Edsel, Crooners Bing...