Word: elementalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glitter of Hollywood began to show signs of tarnish shortly before World War II, when studios-and their owners and stars-began moving to the flossy, faddish suburbs. The original Hollywood neighborhood had deteriorated to the level of seedy respectability when hippies and a punk element, turned on by drugs, arrived in the mid-1960s. From 1969 through 1975, the robbery, burglary and homicide rates in Hollywood climbed nearly twice as fast as for Los Angeles as a whole; narcotics and liquor violations rose more than five times as fast. Last year there were 2,168 prostitution arrests in Hollywood...
...power. His voice is like the trumpet of the Lord at the Second Coming. He can insinuate like a violin, wheedle like a clarinet and thunder anathemas like a great bass drum. And alongside that, Richardson maintains a physical counterpoint of impish comic invention, which is an equally essential element of the Shavian rhetoric...
...conservative element of the bar remains hardy. Trial lawyers are once more mounting a massive lobbying effort against a federal no-fault auto-insurance bill, and delegates at the Chicago meeting are expected to delay again establishment of guidelines for lawyer specialization. New standards permitting lawyer advertising will be approved, but only under U.S. Supreme Court compulsion. The pervasive attitude is aptly summed up in a resolution on leadership continuity, to be submitted for approval by the A.B.A. House of Delegates, which concludes: "Our proposal will benefit the American Bar Association and therefore the public...
Whatever the merits of the quarrels in Washington these days about the health of the American economy, there is one element of the business scene so bracing that Commerce Department officials become ecstatic when they talk about it. The flow of foreign funds into the U.S. has crested in a seemingly endless wave that is nourishing local economies from ailing New York to the striving Sunbelt states. Since 1971 total foreign direct investment has more than doubled from $13.7 billion to an estimated $30 billion in 1976. The Western Europeans, in particular, have been snapping at every investment opportunity-Midwestern...
...second element, faith, includes the belief that "Christ was who He said He was," namely God's own son, and that "He can do what He claimed He could do," forgive sins and fill a person's life. "Only by believing in Jesus-committing yourself to Him, surrendering to Him-are you saved." Graham insists that this God-given "complete change" in individuals is the only basis for social improvement, because people's efforts to better things on their own are doomed...