Mr. Farmer's blend of intellectual daring and pulp-fiction prose found a worldwide audience.
In a highly condensed form they embodied the Playboy ethos: the smartly produced blend of intellectual sophistication, discerning consumerism and fun-loving hedonism.
The Web magazine, which is owned by Microsoft, is looking to set up its own British-based clone, offering readers its blend of intellectual banter -- with an accent.
Having been fine-tuned over the past 20 years, it is a calculated blend of intellectual rigor and parental supervision, exposure to the demands of senior faculty members and insulation from the hormones of regular university students.
Mr. Allen has been known for a blend of intellectual curiosity and collegiality since his time in Houston in the mid-1990s, when he turned his house into a gallery.
Economics is seen as the ideal blend of intellectual prestige (it does offer a Nobel, after all) and practical training for a high-flying finance career (unless, like Levitt, you choose to stay in academia).
Stravinsky's reputation as a heartless constructor of musical objects, to some extent self-perpetuated, obscures his unique blend of intellectual sophistication and intimate self-expression -- call it rooted cosmopolitanism.
The Jefferson side of the political dialogue, Croly argued, was a baleful blend of "intellectual superficiality and insincerity" which was now self-evidently irrelevant to the needs of modern American society.
In Mr. Lagerfeld's collection, held in the relative hush of the Chanel couture salon, you could sense that blend of intellectual rigor and extreme sensuality, in the structured hairdos coming apart over the models' faces, in the narrow sleeves and shoulders, and in the explosion of tulle above the knees.
The nostalgic or the curious can seek out Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago," for example, which analyzed events inside and beyond the convention hall with its author's characteristic, and in this case perfectly appropriate, blend of intellectual grandiosity and journalistic acumen.
An effective modern leader requires a blend of intellectual qualities -- the ability to think analytically, strategically and creatively -- and emotional ones, including self-awareness, empathy, and humility.
