Word: element
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...attributes these to the character issue generally rather than allegations of adultery specifically, she goes on to talk about "a gut-level feeling of distaste for his life-style, which is perceived as morally not upstanding. Women tend to feel that one's moral character is a whole element, that if somebody is doing something morally unacceptable, it affects that person's judgment on other issues...
...Mozart seriously? And the answer that stares this disappointed reviewer in the face: not if we waffle about the expansiveness of his music without stopping to think what it is about. The message that is built into the Magic Flute concerns love, human and divine, fraternal and romantic. The element of farce that is undeniably present in the opera does not obliterate or even minimally detract from the power of this message. It is a message, though, that is only implicit, and that needs to be interpreted--which is what the Lowell House Opera production of the Magic Flute...
Shlain's book is a series of fifteen anecdotal essays looking at these "games within the games," each focusing on a different element of the national pastime. Like Amos Otis, the Royals centerfielder whom the Mets lost in one of Shlain's "Ten Terrible Trades" of the past 30 years, the author covers a lot of ground. Separate essays discuss beanballs, pitchers ruined by choking in the clutch, team dissension as a motivating factor and revolving-door general managers. In addition, Shlain devotes six chapter to "The Manager's Game," surely a vital aspect but by no means 40 percent...
...little light on the inner workings of the game. He makes the obligatory comparison of baseball to life itself (both are "at once so simple and again so hopelessly complex"), throws in an incomprehensible reference to Graham Greene, and reveals unexciting insights such as "There is a basic primal element in the confrontation of the pitcher and the hitter that connects us with our earliest past" and "Almost everyone agrees that the hardest record to break will be Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hitting streak...
...Leaders are copied," she said. "He doesn'thave that element of personal decency necessary tobe a leader...