Word: elementally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Artists' Association Congress broke up in disagreement over "problems of reshaping life in our society." The dissidents were led by Sculptor Fritz Cremer, a longtime Communist, who called for greater artistic freedom in choosing form and content, and aired the heretical notion that doubt is a positive element in artistic thinking. Party bosses immediately accused Cremer of "negating the unity of politics, economics and culture...
...test such tiny apparatus, the disk is locked in a machine, and a probe with many electrical contacts in its tip is pressed against each circuit. Currents flowing through the contacts check out every element of the circuit, and if it fails to meet all requirements,' the probe marks it for rejection with a speck of dye. Then another machine makes checkerboard scratches between the circuits, and they are separated into "dice" by breaking the brittle disk along the scratches...
...BURGLARY: The traditional element of "breaking" is discarded from the definition. It is clearly burglary, under the proposed revision, even if a burglar enters through an open door...
While Stone has manipulated the cramped spaces as best he can, he is more in his element with the interior decoration. Macassar ebony, solid bronze doors, parqueted floors, anodized aluminum sequins, red pile carpets, even potted palms abound (see color page). Two of the museum's nine floors are surrendered to an espresso and cocktail lounge and a 52-seat restaurant called the Gauguin Room. And since Hartford contends that a museum is "really like a church," there is a 3,500-pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ...
...emotions. For all his felicities of phrase, his small ironies and pointed understatements, one feels that Cheever is not always in control of his own voice. Some of his mannerisms--a tendency to adopt a coyly melodramatic tone, for example--eventually become obtrusive. When he attempts satire, the element of fantasy that distinguishes his funniest passages becomes mere grotesqueness. On the other hand, his excesses of sentimentality are almost embarrassing; even readers who do not mind his beginning the novel on a snowy Christmas Eve may object to his ending it, beneath a haze of pity and brotherly love...