How could they be blent in an incentives and regulations framework?
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At Custer University, Ray Blent is an honor student and college basketball star. June Ryder has come to the university to study home economics and to find a husband. Both students and faculty are scandalized by Ryder's unashamed pursuit of Blent. She joins the pom-pom girls and attends all the classes taken by Blent to ensure she has maximum contact with him.
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Yet the old life at blent would not have served by itself now.
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The question was no longer who should have blent, but where they should have dinner.
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It could not be denied that Blinkhampton was among the things which arose out of blent.
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It was hard to realize that he could see Blent now only by another's will or sufferance.
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They had not been wont to come at blent, nor had his affair with Janie Iver created them.
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There was such a nice frosty, Octobery smell in the air, blent with the delightful odor of newly plowed fields.
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He caught the note of incredulity in her voice, but missed the note of relief with which it was blent.
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A calm, subdued triumph, blent with a longing earnestness, marked his enunciation of the last glorious verses of that chapter.
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Then Blent had been the centre of his life, and in town he was but a stranger and a sojourner.
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He realizes too late that his not playing is tantamount to ensuring his team will lose and that he has given the gamblers exactly what they want. Meanwhile, his ethics professor, Leo Sullivan, is coming under extreme student and faculty pressure to reverse the failure and give Blent a passing grade. He refuses to do this on principle, but finally consents to give Blent an oral retest while the game is in progress. Blent passes and plays for the last few minutes, achieving a one-point victory for the school.
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Everyone is aware of her designs on the sexually naive Blent except for him. She succeeds in convincing him that she has an intelligent, inquiring mind that he admires, although this is all done through deception. She eventually gets Blent to fall for her and propose marriage. However, they need several thousand dollars to set up a home.
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The songs she sang, without lament, In her prison-house of pain, Forever are they sweetly blent With the falling summer rain.
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Yet through and in spite of all this she maintained, even to the extreme of punctiliousness, the air of being a visitor at Blent.
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But now, as I went up to him, and stood beside him in sad silence, I felt the presence of a new element that blended us as we had never been blent before.
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The dead have no nation, he points out: The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, – friend, foe, – in one red burial blent!
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Blent is secretly propositioned, via a radio message, by a gambling syndicate to lose a key game with a visiting Russian team. He refuses to do this, but is unable to return the money as he does not know who is behind the bribe. Rather than deliberately throw the game, he decides to deliberately fail an ethics exam, which automatically disqualifies him from playing. He is the best student in class, and the only way he can fail is by copying Ryder's paper.
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James George Frazer speculated that the figure of the May Queen was linked to ancient tree worship.Frazer (1922), The Golden Bough, ch. 10 "Relics of tree worship in modern Europe"; Frazer quotes Mannhardt: "The names May, Father May, May Lady, Queen of the May, by which the anthropomorphic spirit of vegetation is often denoted, show that the idea of the spirit of vegetation is blent with a personification of the season at which his powers are most strikingly manifested." In the High Middle Ages in England the May Queen was also known as the "Summer Queen".
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And views its circling current sweep, In constant journey, to the deep; Emblem of man, whose ceaseless wave Is rolled to that dark gulf, the grave! When starry evening pours her ray, And mellows all the landscape gay; These bowers so formed by nature's care, Receive the constant, plighted pair, Whose hearts are one, by feeling blent; Whose souls (entwined each ligament) Have breathed that vow which, heard on high, E'en angels witness in the sky:- Elate with joy, with rapture warm, They gather every passing charm; And o'er the future, spread each flower Which hope can cull from fancy's bower; And fondly view their years bestrewed With roseate bliss and halcyon good. Ah! Reckless they what griefs assail, When bleak misfortune blows her gale:- Affections crushed by wasting Death, The eye bedimmed, and gasped the breath; Beauty's bright form to dust returned, And life's fond hopes with her enurned; A solitary mourner's tread Is heard o'er mansions of the dead; The sad spectator of mankind, Who lives without one joy behind. But see, a gayer scene inspires, Where love illumes his brightest fires; And keener points his polished dart, To carry captive all the heart.
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