Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long novel than in a tight play. On the other hand, a craftsman working on Anderson has a nearly impossible...
...missing element in the book is, of course, the quality of thought. Hemingway's "dumb oxen" did not remain dumb, because Hemingway, after all, was capable of thought. Not so the sports-jacketed, impressively cicatriced authors who still follow Hemingway out of the Land of Letters into the Land of Ham. At one point Author Heinz has his Neanderthal narrator muse: "I can never figure out how the mind works." Somewhere there must be a literary line coach getting the squad together with the injunction: "Please, fellers, just once more, try for dear old Harper's, try figure...
...intercontinental bomber hopefully designed to fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) at altitudes ranging to 125,000 ft. The so-called "chemical bomber" will use not the ordinary fuels such as kerosene and gasoline but materials probably composed, in part, of boron, an element of the familiar household cleansing chemical borax...
...problem of making gasoline in quantity from rock, built a $14 million plant for commercial production. Science could even give humdrum old materials an exciting new lease on life. For years U.S. Borax & Chemical Co. mined borax for use as a household cleanser. Today Boron is a new wonder element, used in everything from drugs to super-powered rocket fuels...
...Enduring Necessity. In a sense, the compromise line constitutes its own argument for a continued hard line based upon a realistic assessment of what is weakness and what is strength. Item: the Soviet satellite countries, as a present element of Soviet weakness, are an element of NATO strength. Item: Germany, no bauble to be traded off by somebody else's ambassadors, is now the most promising evolving element of the total NATO power. Item: disarmament talks, when conducted with excess optimism (e.g., the 1957 discussions), can create the complacent type of climate in which Soviet geopoliticians and missilemen...