Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam, into isolated areas where they had little to gain and lives to lose. He did much the same thing to the French in 1952 and 1953. Last week's series of urban attacks was a radical departure, but it has some logic and some advantages. A major element in U.S. strength is mobility in the air; if enough damage could be done to airfields and aircraft, that element would be sharply reduced. Fighting inside cities also nullified much of the U.S. firepower; neither artillery nor heavy bombing could be employed to any widespread degree in allied populated areas...
...problem with the President's Report lies not in any failure to distinguish acceptable from unacceptable protest, nor even so much in his untimely vituperation against the activist element. It lies in Pusey's blindness to the magnitude of disaffection at Harvard. Like the author of another recent "annual report," Pusey senses a certain restlessness--but his faith in the loyalty and middle-of-the-road acquiescence of all but a handful of his students remain unshaken. When he undertook to insult students who believe American society is rotten and are in need of redemption, Pusey did not realize...
...slaves must be bought and sold. Somebody must do the trading, and why not make hay while the sun shines?" Slavery,was one of God's ways of bringing the heathen to Christianity, it was argued; and besides, slavery helped rid Africa of its well-known criminal element...
...physical frailty is a genuine asset here, and she deserves an award just for keeping her "blind" eyes looking in the proper direction throughout. The real acting coup is Alan Arkin's. As a homocidal-sex maniac, Arkin is bone-chilling. His use of sunglasses, an eventual plot element, helps prevent associating him with the lovable sailor of The Russians Are Coming...
Newmark is a giant but he has some more mortal-sized companions who may be the key to a Columbia title. Against Cornell two sophomores, Jim McMillian and Al Dotson, knifed at will through the Big Red defense and then inflicted innumerable humiliations on the Ithacan offense. The final element in the Lion victory was the hot shooting of 6-3 junior Roger Walaszek...