Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spacing of the numbers. The listener is caught, during the intervals, in a veritable frenzy of despair that the previous number was the last, and listeners have been known to stay glued to their windows for as long as half an hour in hopes of one last piece. This element of suspense is all that interferes with an otherwise totally exhilarating musical experience...
Khrushchev's new shots notwithstanding, U.S. officials went on preparing new proposals for Germany that were based on proven and continuing firmness. Principal element: reunify Germany by free elections with free choice on whether or not to join NATO. Possible tactic: offer the Russians a new European security treaty guaranteeing that no new German militarism could threaten them, even to the point of guaranteeing not to move NATO troops forward of their present positions in West Germany...
Cheered and applauded wherever he went, Nkrumah was in his element. The enthusiasm of the Indians was topped only by that of his own publicity men, who showered the press with London-printed brochures, glossy photographs, canned biographies and the repeated injunction that the great man's name is pronounced "En-Kromah." Acknowledging his debt to the "inspiration" of Gandhi and the "superhuman efforts" of Nehru, Nkrumah talked glowingly of his own "parliamentary democracy" back home...
Although the prevailing U.S. attitude to Oedipal situations is superficially true to Freud, Dr. May noted an important subsurface difference: it lacks the tragic element that Freud saw in father-son hostility and rivalry...
...like-minded therapists, Freud's view of "natural man," moved by instinctual forces, is an essential element of the truth, but still inadequate. The view of man as a social creature, advanced by Sullivan and Karen Horney, adds a second dimension-but still not enough. For a full understanding, and hence for successful psychotherapy, they hold that man must be seen in his entirety, in the light of his self-consciousness, his imagination, his creativity, and his unique ability to see himself as a finite creature, poised on the brink of nothingness-as Pascal put it, "here rather than...