Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holly, who has spoken to members of the Council and to the office of the City Manager, said he had encountered an element of "run-around" and "buck-passing" in both quarters. Officials have also told him that "it is Harvard's responsibility" to publicize city parking regulation if Cambridge newspapers are inadequate for this task...
...blonde named Helen Sobel, as one of the world's greatest bridge players-which she is. As the tournament neared its end, with tensions and tempers rising, he occasionally took advantage of being dummy to rest his eyes, almost as if snoozing. He was obviously out of his element in one of the most competitive of all pastimes...
...dramatically effective job of converting Ernest Hemingway's tight drama of guerilla warfare into a movie, but he has run into difficulty in neglecting the major ideas of the book. The book would make no sense without the love plot; it holds the story together and provides real element of tragedy. Yet the movie glosses the subtleties of the love sequence, leaving the viewer with the impression that he has seen some good war scenes, and some good love scenes, with very little to relate them to each other...
Plans are under way to mount it off-Broadway during the coming season; and the motivation is justified, for this is an important play. It is "difficult" and unorthodox, and demands unflagging concentration. There is no plot in the usual sense of the word; and the element of time is employed in a fluid and daring...
Dudley has always been "a very useful device to take care of temporary groups of students who are wanted in Harvard, but for whom the College has no room," Leighton commented. The residential Houses, he observed, are inflexible units in providing space for students, while Dudley represents "an element of flexibility" in the housing system...