Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republican battlecry, "It's time for a change." One new element was present in the Stevenson speech: a sharp personal attack on Eisenhower. Stevenson resented Ike's charges that a Stevenson Administration would be no more successful than the Truman Administration in routing corruption. Said the Democratic candidate: "I had not expected that from the general, and I will not repay him in kind. But I would thank him to read more carefully what I don't believe he would write himself. Moreover you'll forgive me if I gag a little when Republican politicians...
...essentially a serious meeting into a sort of vaudeville act. Said one foreign newsman: "Everyone has the feeling of being an actor in a show. It is a fallacy of democracy that everything has to be continually decided by popular vote. You need something in the middle, an element of reflection." Added CBS's Ed Murrow
...said Sir Russell. "Mind, therefore . . . cannot . . . be identified with consciousness, or to put the same thing another way, there are large and important parts of the brain which are concerned with . . . solving problems while we sleep, making jokes, creating the characters who people our dreams, and contributing that vital element which we call inspiration to the work of the artist, poet and novelist...
...Shameful Things." The effect of the Nation's issue, said he, "is to encourage the world to accept Radio Moscow's view, of the U.S., the view of this society as a disintegrating democracy, one in which the hooligan element not only strives for power as it does elsewhere, but has already achieved...
...that Conant has always been followed at a distance of course by hordes of undergraduates worshipping in his footsteps. During the 30's when political activity ran unchecked through the streets of Cambridge. Conant was a frequent target for extemist student groups. The fat left wing element regularly denounced him as "a tool of Wall Street." This attitude was exemplified by an article in. "The Nation" by a former head of the University. News Office who denounced Conant but added that "I hardly expect the University to thumb its nose at the Wall Street bankers who now help administer...