Word: elements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Around & Around. Down in the East Room, the Marine orchestra begins to beat out easy rhythms like Tea for Two and A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody-no twists, no bouncy Latin numbers. Now Lyndon is in his element. "He went around and around, dancing with all the ladies," said Colorado Democrat Wayne Aspinall. "He wouldn't pay attention to anything else...
...chief missing element is poetic delicacy. Many of the players, especially the minor ones, are allowed to overact; they are trying too hard. And although most (but not all)of them have learned their Oriental movements and gestures, they have not rid themselves of a variety of strictly American regional accents...
Gerachenkron's spring half course, entitled "The Political Element in Economic History," will "attempt to assess the significance of the political element in economic development," Gerschenkron said. It will draw its examples of economic development from the history of nineteenth century Europe...
Coming of Age. But there has always existed a countervailing, more enlightened element in the Irish community, writes Shannon. The list ranges from James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, who in the 1880s urged lay Catholics to join trade unions, to Al Smith, the ebullient Governor of New York, on to the liberal priest John Ryan, who was Father Coughlin's most persistent Catholic critic...
...only 18 'good' U.S. dailies." What I originally said was that of 200 major dailies, 10 to 18 would generally be ranked as "excellent" or "first-rate" by knowledgeable critics. That is not a bad percentage of excellence in any field. More important is the growing element of leadership on many dailies that seeks excellence, abhors distortion of news, and welcomes constructive criticism. There is fortunately more of this spirit in all branches of journalism than ever before...