Word: elements
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...true that the CRIME has sired some of America's greatest men, but it is probably equally true that from 14 Plympton Street have gone forth some of the country's smallest men. So there is a certain spine-tingling element of chance in this business that should make at least all gambler types attend tonight...
Aside from the horror element in Radcliffe cycling, it is a strong detriment to young love. For example, in the days of Kittredge, and those were the days, Harvard-Radcliffe couples could follow the course of true romance while walking down Garden Street. But nowadays, the bicycle has turned romantic love into mechanized warfare; sentiment gives way to slaughter...
Tortured Souls. "Christian love can bring brotherhood on earth. There is an element of God in every man," said he, after his own home was bombed. "No matter how low one sinks into racial bigotry, he can be redeemed . . . Nonviolence is our testing point. The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back." With such an approach he outflanked the Southern legislators who planted statutory hedgerows against integration for as far as the eye could see. He struck where an attack was least expected, and where it hurt most: at the South...
Good Listeners. "If a joke lays a complete egg," says George Burns, "we might put in two or three people to carry it along." The laugh canner's purest technique (Ozzie & Harriet) is to skip the fallible human element altogether and, as the trade has it, "lay the laugh track in cold." Says Producer Alex Gottlieb: "A good film editor can lay in a laugh track from the library that comes out sounding more authentic than live laughter. After all, people aren't expert laughers, but the sound effects man is an expert listener...
Internal Tick. Skinny Arnie Sowell, the light-foot Pitt Negro with elastic legs, was back in his element, his disappointing summer outdoors and his heartbreaking failure at Melbourne now behind him. He hardly wasted a glance on last year's winner, halfback-sized Tom Courtney of Fordham. On the broad lanes and long straightaways of outdoor tracks, where Courtney could get his weight rolling, things had been different. Sowell had been second best. In the Garden Arnie was at home...