Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troops and of Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Concerning the troops, "the U.S. Would not oppose, if agreed to by the parties, the stationing in the West Bank and Gaza of limited numbers of Israeli security personnel in specifically defined areas and with a defined role as one element in providing for the security of Israel...
...great themes of American literature is the subversion of normalcy, by presenting the gothic element in American life (Poe), the hungering force of a dusky past (Hawthorne), or the explosive curse of vice (Faulkner). Similarly, when we look closely at Jones's life, neither it nor the midwest seems so blithely "normal." For Jones was half-Indian, and in the midwest in the '50s you were not allowed to forget that very long--you were an outsider. At age 18, Jones became a Maoist and made the intellectual synthesis on which he would build his church: that religion is indeed...
...view, the element of choice is crucial. A woman who chooses to model for the magazine and is adequately compensated cannot legitimately be considered "exploited." For that reason, we find the majority's cries of exploitation and oppression illogical, and fear they are simply a blatant appeal to emotion...
...self-praises and even the thanks for good fortune are of little use to those who are less fortunate. So if this is a time to give thanks, it is also a time not to take the stored harvest for granted. Americans sense an uncertain and uncontrolled element in their lives. That is evident in the kind of restless discontent that appeared in the off-year elections, not only in the cautious and sometimes contradictory voting but also in the low numbers of votes cast. "There is a mood of apprehension and anxiety, a fear of the unknown," says Northwestern...
...blindness--the refusal by so many South African whites to realize that black South Africans have needs and desires just as the whites do--is perhaps the most disturbing element of the gap between the races. The complete failure to understand that the black woman who works as the family maid might like running water in the servants' quarters, or that the blacks' real problem in South Africa is not that they are always having babies...