Word: element
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most troubling element of Koyanis' statement is the implied attitude toward the general reader. The idea seems to be that any print version of Dickinson poems designed--like "Final Harvest?" --with the non-specialist in mind threatens the integrity of the poet's work...
...mirabilis mode can, of course, be dragged onto the op-ed page to start a macro-argument about global warming or a micro-spat over a mayor's fecklessness in deploying snowplows. Otherwise, traumas of weather do not admit of political interpretation. The snow Shinto reintroduces an element of what is almost charmingly uncontrollable in life. And, as shown last week, surprising, even as the priests predict it. This is welcome--a kind of ideological relief--in a rather stupidly politicized society living under the delusion that everything in life (and death) is arguable, political and therefore manipulable--from diet...
...mention the absence of a key element for any winning team...luck. The Crimson has simply been an unlucky team in its skid of late...
...weeks 20,000 U.S. troops will be in Bosnia. The most dangerous risk of their mission is that the Bosnian Serbs will consider them an enemy and then act accordingly. There is one specific element of the U.S. policy that gravely exacerbates this danger--the likelihood that the U.S. will provide arms and training to the Bosnian Muslims. In his speech on Bosnia last Monday, Clinton said that "the U.S. and others [will make] sure the Bosnian federation has the means to defend itself" once peacekeeping troops are withdrawn. The statement reflected the U.S. belief that a military balance...
...into Tuesday's runoff mayoral election. San Francisco bureau chief David Jackson notes that while Jordan managed during his first four years to balance the budget and clean up the streets as promised, Brown has captured the political soul of the city. "Willie Brown appeals to the very liberal element that dominates San Francisco politics," Jackson says. "He's using the same skills he used as a mover and shaker in the state assembly: many promises, many coalitions. The question is whether those skills will make him a good mayor, or whether San Francisco will end up with...