Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both before and since Meredith's enrollment, the Board stood firm before the vote-seeking bigots of the state who, fortunately, are more vocal than influential. In the summer of 1959 two members of this element, one a member of the legislature and the other a former legislator, drew up a series of "charges" against a dozen university professors for teaching alien and subversive ideas. The board conducted its own investigation, and issued a statement that the charges were completely false, and further expressed confidence in the administration of the university...
...faculty, however, these departments have stubbornly continued to do their jobs. The very fact that the outside political pressures are if anything increasing is proof that the professors have not yielded. And the fact that since 1954, the year of the Brown decision, there has been a large element of dissenters among the student body is proof that the professors' efforts have not been in vain...
...weakest element in Mr. Cohen's analysis is his brief dismissal of Mr. Diefenbaker's chances in Quebec. Mr. Pearson may have promised to set up a Royal Commission to study biculturism but the Prime Minister has gained admiration and trust in Quebec by his dramatic rumblings over American "intrusion" in Canadian affairs. Mr. Diefenbaker may "have the face of Bugs Bunny and sound like the voice of Moses"--but he fits the hero image better than Mr. Pearson. He has wagged his finger at Washington and he is a powerful "unequivocal-sounding" platform performer. And the crucial fact remains...
...Otello's fatal jealousy had just the right measure of Moorish grief to provide motive enough for murder, and agony enough for a whole flight of heroic high notes. His voice sailed easily over the orchestra even when the musicians were at excessively symphonic pitch-the one element of real excitement in an otherwise hushed performance...
...spell assimilative success, but Stein recognizes that it also contains a rueful hint of cultural extinction. This is not to suggest that Enter Laughing is a social document, but merely that its solid sense of social place and time (the Depression) gives an evening of frequently paralyzing laughter an element of true comic bite...