Word: elemental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would have faced Coonskin Estes again. The orphaned Truman delegation began looking for another candidate. Illinois' Governor Adlai Stevenson seemed a good possibility, but he wouldn't step in. Former Representative Helen Gahagan Douglas offered to run as a favorite daughter, but Luckey's conservative element wouldn't accept her-too leftwing. The motley 76 finally agreed that they couldn't agree on any candidate. Sadly, they wandered off in different directions, looking for candidates. A "Democrats-for-Eisenhower" delegation was being discussed...
Glueck stressed the importance of keeping the criminal element guessing by constantly changing patrol schedules and routes...
Finishing the evening in their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...
...second and third acts the comedy element is completely submerged in melodrama, apparently to the delight of the feminine members of the audiences. It seems as if the playwright is not quite sure of what she wants to accomplish. The spoofing of polygamy in the first act is somehow incongruous with her moral examination of the effects of polygamy in the parties involved. What results is soap opera transferred to the stage...
...said, "where unity is so greatly needed or where lack of it is so dangerous." In an address at Princeton University, Dulles pressed the thought further: "The attitude of the free peoples is almost wholly defensive . . . The Communism of Soviet Russia and its satellites represents today the active, dynamic element and the free world represents the static, passive element... The U.S. ... can be destroyed by forces that, in themselves, seem weak -if those forces are active and if we are passive...