Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though foreigners would gasp to hear it, the American thinks of himself as a stable, passive element in a disturbed world. The foreigner knows better: he knows that America is a prime mover in the world's convulsions. When the American takes a step in international economic affairs, the non-American, who does not understand the peculiar U.S. economic background, suspects him of hypocritically looking for profit or trying to impose the American way of life. Similarly, the U.S. from time to time gets into these unreal "Great Debates" over "internationalism" v. "isolationism," because the American is caught between...
Recalling his generation of the early thirties. Handlin notes a deep concern with individual self-development, free expression, and social progress. They too were realists, as some describe the postwar generation. But their realism left room for continuing experiment and an element of non-conformity...
...Anything, Anywhere." What had happened in northeast Korea was proof that even in disaster and defeat the most significant element of U.S. power was mobility. In the amphibious campaigns of World War II the U.S. had developed with stunning success the techniques of transporting power by sea. Those techniques were by no means obsolete, but they were faced with a formidable new obstacle. Amphibious landings on the World War II model required vast supply dumps in ports or beachheads which would present an irresistible target to an enemy with the atomic bomb. Said General Omar Bradley, not long...
During the second act, the uniqueness fades. Mr. Del Mar changes from his informal, rehearsal garb of the first act to conductor's full dress, and the opera begins. It is here that Benjamin Britten's music comes out as the intriguing element. Between the scenes of the first act, music written for four hands on a plane and percussion gave hints of what follows. Britten unfolds music of gay brightness, reminiscent of his work in the humorous opera "Albert Horring." The plot of the bedtime story is naturally flabby, and the acting of the children, though excellent...
...simply did not mention it. "Tito's defection from Kremlin control represents the first setback for Soviet imperialism and as such is an important political symbol," explained Mr. Truman. "Tito controls the largest fighting force in Europe except the Soviet Union and . . . these forces constitute an important element in the defense of Western Europe against Soviet aggression." The President wanted Congress, when it reconvened Nov. 27, to approve emergency funds to feed the drought-stricken Yugoslavs. As a stopgap until Congress took up the matter, ECA had already diverted $11,500,000 worth of flour from its Italian...