Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most dramatic element of what Scot tish Architect Sir Basil Spence calls his "prayer in stone" is the contrast between the starkly modern new building of pink sandstone (on the outside) and cool concrete (on the inside) and the bombed ruins, which will form a kind of entrance to the cathedral. They will be kept as they are-grass and gravel where the pews once stood-and linked to the new structure by a covered arch...
...George Pal, the cinema's ace conjurer of cosmic cataclysm (War of the Worlds, When Worlds Collide), has re-created this crazy continent, given it a colossal blood bath and sunk it again. In the process he has admirably fulfilled his ambition to supply escapist entertainment "with an element of wonder, stressing man's suppressed desire to travel away from himself...
Kennan remains from using the phrase, but there is little doubt that he belongs to the "Realistic School." Foreign policy should not strive to recorder the world, but only to protect a nation's interests and preserve peace. "There is nothing absolute in itself, no friendship without some element of antagonism, no enmity without some rudimentary community of interest...
...element in this homogenization of U.S. Protestantism is the decline of ethnic differences between Americans; many a church used to be kept alive by the national loyalties of first-generation citizens and the parental loyalties of their children. Another element is the pressure on Protestantism of an expanding Roman Catholic Church, which is currently growing more than twice as fast as the leading Protestant denominations...
...small elite of dedicated people carried on science in the eighteenth century he said. With only one scientific journal and no systematic teaching at all on the Continent, collaboration among scientists was limited to visits and letters. This lack of communication was an element which alowed the advance of modern scientific method...