Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...true kingmakers, capable of savaging or salvaging a candidacy with a few well-chosen words. Such criticism of the press, not altogether new, is not altogether convincing either. Though the press has indisputably become part of the political process that it reports, it is no more than one element in that process...
...powerful truth. Professors often fail to rise to this standard of judgement out of prejudice, mean-mindedness, and the narcosis induced by membership in a mutual admiration society. But they also fail out of a kind of hypocrisy and despair. They want to suppress the painful awareness of the element of arbitrariness in their lifelong devotion to some particular mode of thought. They are unable to imagine their own discipline, in the here and now, as the arena of a violent formative contest. Judged by the higher standard, academic freedom does not flourish at Harvard. Our failure to establish...
...sendmoney. He did. Keke today is an ebullient woman of 48 who pinches and flirts with Anderson, advises him on everything from how to comb his hair to political strategy-she really persuaded him to run -and works crowds on her own. "I'm the humanizing element in this campaign," she says...
...conflict-ridden nor as relentlessly bombarded with daily polls as we are now. Though the contemporary scene makes for confusion and instability, there is one consolation. The confusion presents a unique opportunity to gain an insight indispensable to all who rely upon poll data. It highlights a missing element in the relationship of opinion polls to the public whose views they register...
...life, and this was a palpable fact. I knew him during all four of my years as an undergraduate, and I could never identify a set of critical principles that could claim his allegiance. So far as I could tell he did not need any. Literature was his element, and he no more needed an academic theory to deal with it than a dolphin needs swimming lessons. With the greatest sympathy and delicately discerning judgement he simply read the great poets. Of course, one reason he could be so persuasively dismissive of what he called "lit. crit." was that...