Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...source of trouble is that The Wall is an adaptation, something replanted in alien, resisting soil. With The Wall, the spatial element is an essential 'one, which the stage, unlike the cinema, cannot convey. The Wall in the theater proves neither personal in appeal nor panoramic in effect; it is too diffused to have impact as a story, too restricted for vast horror as a scene. A Diary of Anne Frank, by remaining the chronicle of a girl and confining its tragedy to a garret, could expand a family's fate into that of an entire race...
...Elis today, and he will be ably backed by Bill Bachrach and sophomore Bob Mack. The Yale home grounds have acquired a reputatior as a "speedsters' course," and Carroll, who won the 880 in last spring's Harvard-Yale track meet in 1:49.8, will be in his element. However, Mark Mullin and Jed Fitxgerald of Harvard ran Carroll into the ground last spring in the two-mile, and may hold a psychological advantage...
...part, the magnitude of this defensive effort would entail a long range commitment to the shelters as an essential element in a strategy of deterrence, and would hinder innovative policies on the peace front for some time to come. Ronald D. Quinn...
...believe that an adequate civil defense program is not worth the money, that a greater contribution of deterrence can be made by expenditure on relatively invulnerable weapons systems and on greater mobility and fire power for our conventional forces. Bomb shelters, being an essentially static and inflexible strategic element, could probably in the course of time generate an offensive weapon that would nullify their value. For instance, trench warfare was rendered obsolete by the invention of noxious gases. The history of arms races indicates that such a development is most likely if the prospective counter-measure, in this case perhaps...
...make its own disintegration improbable--a matter which was far from being assured a few years back. It is reasonable to think that all stand to gain from unity and that the advantages to be gained from separation are minimal. Yet tribalism in one guise remains an immensely potent element. Every one denounces it, but it has a vitality which reaches well back into the African past. Most modern forces no doubt work to diminish rather than to enhance tribalism, but the major ethnic groups obviously provide pre-existing constituencies which the politician finds it alluring to draw from...