Word: element
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Fearless Fosdick. Humphrey knows that a major element in this reversal is a conservative reaction to racial tension, crime, high taxes and the anti-poverty program. "I won't pander to it," he declares. "We're not going to out-Nixon Nixon, and we're not going to out-Wallace Wallace. We're going to say it like it is." To blunt Nixon's attacks on the crime issue, Humphrey argues that police and the courts must receive more material assistance in doing their jobs. He also argues that the problem is basically social, not a matter of higher conviction...
Whyte's theories all go much farther than prettification and cosmetics. He knows that an interest in landscape, more than in any other element of the environment, can lead to resolution of larger problems. "People," he says, "are stirred by what they...
There is another element that Peter Townshend--who, it should by now be apparent, is a giant among giants with the Who--introduces in their music, that of electronic manipulation. All electric instruments come with a sizable Noise (as distinct from Music) potential. The challenge is to attempt to fuse Noise and Music so that they go together--such music it seems is known as Musique Concrete. Writing in the Aug. 10 issue of Rolling Stone, Edmund O. Ward calls Townshend "one of the foremost pioneers and practitioners of this art" and goes on to rave about the instrumental break...
...color of straw hats flying, placards pumping and delegations drowning out one another in a near unanimous renomination of Calvin Coolidge. Then, few Americans ever got a chance to witness a convention; today, millions watch the spectacle on TV. As a result, though colorful detail is still an important element in good reporting, it is only the beginning of the reporter's search for what really happened. That search may mean bringing greater knowledge and understanding to a scene that the camera merely records, or seeking out the facts and drama not visible to the viewer: the behind...
With his primitive equipment, he repeatedly bombarded the element uranium with neutrons in an effort to create new man-made radioactive isotopes. According to the theories of the time, the neutrons should have combined with the nucleus of the uranium atoms to produce heavier, unstable isotopes. Yet he kept finding lighter atoms of barium. Gradually, the inexplicable presence of the barium, which is only about half the weight of uranium, persuaded Hahn that he had done what had always been considered impossible: he had split the atom...