Word: element
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward the rear of the hall sit the service club members and the rah-rah crowd, "the squares who really believe in student government." Other tribes are the Saracens, who include a small motorcycling hood element; the clowns, a group of practical jokers who wear Mickey Mouse shirts to signify that all human existence is fraudulent; the intellectuals, who lounge on the steps of the administration building as the rest of the student body speculates over whether the long-haired girls among them are professional virgins or real swingers; and an amorphous crowd that defies classification by declaring unanimously...
...surprisingly, they demonstrated a vast improvement in efficiency over the old Marxist bureaucratic model. When Khrushchev was ousted, some Soviet experts suspected that his revisionist experiments with Libermanism were at least partly to blame. On the contrary, the new leadership moved quickly to make Libermanism a prime element of their domestic policy...
Hand-Holding. The situation was of course not new at all. But some of the personalities were. Moscow's new team of Brezhnev and Kosygin would hardly be prepared at this early date to make major decisions on so basic an element of Soviet foreign policy as the German question. It was, after all, the fear of some new Khrushchev initiative toward Bonn that spurred his adversaries in the Kremlin to throw...
...written permission. But such old-fashioned notions are dying fast, and Latin American women are determined to lay down a few rules of their own. "We know," says Colombia's Señora de Uribe, "that we have something else to offer than men-namely, the human element, more compassion. And with this, we will conquer society which for years has kept us submissive...
...under-world itself. The famous final scene, in which Lorre confesses his crimes, is a true melodrama of the soul. And the initiates to the film should watch out for the use of asynchronous sound or counterpoint, the brilliant use of incidental music as an active dramatic element, and the melodramatic use of space, especially in long shots from above...