Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major divisions: Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Last month representatives of the three branches, each of which embraces roughly one-third of the na tion's 6,000,000 Jews, agreed at the annual meeting of the Conservatives' Rabbinical Assembly that denominationalism is "the most pernicious and destructive element in American Jew ish life." In the current issue of the quarterly Judaism, some leading Jewish intellectuals discuss the possibilities of healing the old antagonisms, which in the past led Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews to form separate rabbinical and synagogue organizations...
...that the trial court erred in giving a felony-murder instruction." While the record may have contained sufficient evidence to support a conviction of second-degree murder, the court was unable to tell whether the jury had actually found that Phillips acted "in conscious disregard for life," a necessary element of the crime. Reason: the prosecutor's felony-murder theory...
...Alfred University, Samuel B. Gould, president of the State University of New York, said the "disquieting element" in student activism is that "it is not often enough accompanied by the presentation of practical solutions to the state of affairs being protested." At Smith, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that "when issues are complex and ambiguous, as in Viet Nam, mass demonstrations run the risk of lowering the rationality of discussion...
...sympathy for full discussion on an issue that so directly affects their nonacademic lives. Is it coercion for the unenfranchised to demonstrate for a full discussion (not even for a vote)? And is it not a fundamental confusion to talk of an academic community in which one essential element has neither vote nor provision to be heard before community policies...
...inherent in helicopters make such prowess the more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary rotor craft in 1483, but even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes the whole craft...