Word: elements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a faint idea what it is like to be alive. This is the only thing that interests me greatly. This and tennis." And he does succeed admirably in many instances in communicating his conception of life, though it is often a morbid and distorted one. It is this element that at one and the same time detracts from his writing and again gives it the vividness so characteristic of his work...
...incipient sniping to which he has been subjected may increase to a fusillade. A "middle of the road" policy now seems quite necessary. A further move to the left before elections will increase the conservatism of the House, while any move to the right will incense the radical element. An increase in either extreme will make his problem of handling the new Congress more difficult...
This system promises to add new zest to the usual continue of undergraduate governmental enquiry, more or less stereotyped by its very nature. Now, however the introduction of the personal element will provide intriguing possibilities of dissection a candidate's personality and character as well as his political ideas. One criticism of this new feature of the Liberal Club's policy appears. Unfortunately in publishing these interviews, no conclusions are to be drawn; the reader is to be left to draw his own inferences from the facts. Though this may be partly necessary to maintain an impartial attitude, it does...
...general dryness and unapproachable frigidity of the lecturer . . ." If your reviewer desires a slap-you-on-the-back, Y. M. C. A., up-your mark-ten-points-for-a-quart-of-rye, he's out of his element in the presence of a brilliant gentleman such as Professor Morison. The critic who confuses cultural restraint with congenital coyness ought to be drowned in his own pink ink. Samuel Eliot Morison is one of the ensiost and most sympathetic men to work with I have ever known. His ability as a stylist and an orator renders his lectures as interesting...
...Here resulted an effective community of directives and methods in what concerns the independence and integrity of the Austrian State, an independence and integrity to which appertains also com plete internal autonomy and which represent, moreover, the concrete European interest and a favorable element for the maintenance of the Danubian sector...