Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perhaps the most characteristic American element in all this, and the most moving as well, is that astonished moment when the reckless clarifier carefully looks over his audience (or courtroom or stationery or press conference) anc envisions being born again. O hopeful pioneer. All he has to do is say a few words and the world will be new. He feels better already. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...even comic timing. He jumps between love affairs, fantasies, and his distorted sense of reality--his memories--with frightening alacrity. Like a night when the nightmares refuse to end, Allen can't shield his eyes from the suffering around him but refuses to fix his gaze on any one element of pain long enough somehow to understand...
...nature of architectural forms as entities in themselves. Miss offers clever explorations of perspective and, through visual illusions, calls attention to the exact nature of ordinary forms. What her works lack is an overt sense of personal and emotional involvement on the part of the artist. If this human element were attended to, the result might then be a work which would transcend stylishness...
Over the course of last year, Sichuan province, Deng's home, emerged as a national model for China and Zhao, 61, as a model bureaucrat. Zhao had been denounced during the Cultural Revolution as a "stinking landlord element" (his father had been a landowner in Henan province) and was paraded down the streets of Canton in 1967 with a dunce cap on his head, a type of experience he shared with a number of other Chinese leaders. He disappeared for four years; then, in 1975, after serving in both Inner Mongolia and Guangdong province party posts, he was sent...
Wheaton, though short of Ph.D.s in some departments, is strong on dedicated teaching. The college excels in math and science. Among the faculty stars is Physicist Howard H. Claassen, part of the three-man team that synthesized a new chemical compound, xenon tetrafluoride, from an inert element. Other points of pride: study tours abroad (one aimed at combatting hunger) and a collection on the work of C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Dorothy L. Sayers and other Christian writers...