Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philadelphia riot [Sept. 4] was not a "race riot" but simply an infinitesimal part of our Negro community-the rowdy, lawless, hoodlum element-taking advantage of an excuse. There was no issue of black v. white. The Negro community rallied to the support of the mayor and the law-enforcement agencies. Residents opened their homes to police; women prepared free doughnuts and coffee for the weary officers on riot duty; area residents sent telegrams of support to the mayor and an offer to help in cleaning up; a clearinghouse was set up in an area church for people to return...
...those grounds, the Democrats will almost certainly attack Goldwater's reluctance to face the press; in response, Goldwater & Co. are likely to reiterate their charges of unfair treatment. Thus the press faces the prospect of being an issue and an element of strategy in the campaign...
...within hours, several of the more aggressive civil rights leaders-including James Farmer of CORE-declared their unwillingness to go along with any curtailment or moratorium on demonstrations. And, representing the worst kind of element, Black Nationalist Leader Malcolm X had his say all the way from Cairo, where he showed up as a self-appointed delegate to a Pan-African conference. Negroes, he counseled, should demand "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life." Dealing with the aggressiveness of some Negro youths and the ambitions of some Negro spokesmen, the responsible Negro...
...effectiveness of the show element in theater depends to a large extent on its seeming natural to the audience, just as half a courtier's elegance is in his non-chalance. Servants should be graceful, heralds dashing; and if the audience notices them it should be only briefly, and with pleasure...
...World is a travesty. It is enough to make someone who had not read the play think it a comedy--and not a very good one at that. Director Donald Mullin has chosen to deemphasize all that is grim about the play--which is precisely the element that makes it Congreve's masterpeice--and to focus on the humor. Unfortunately the humor falls flat...