Word: recasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation), joining the Irish and Italians wth those already part of the American mainstream, dividing the Jews, and providing Negroes and Puerto Ricans a stronger sense of community. Although the melting pot, as Glazer and Moynihan point out, doe not melt away conflict and produce uniformity, it does continually recast the nature of the conflict...
...even if Home is able to unify his party and recast its image, the Conservatives will have a rough go of it in next year's election. For the first time in twelve years, Labor will go to the polls unhampered by intra-party strife. Since he took over the leadership after Hugh Gaitskell's death, Harold Wilson has maneuvered to unite a party bitterly split on the question of succession. Last month, at the Labor convention in Scarborough, he succeeded. His keynote address was exuberantly acclaimed by delegates, and his persistent rival, Deputy Leader George Brown, gave...
...impossibility of later uniting music and tragedy under the Greek model, he noted, lay in the ancient idea of fate. Men saw necessity no longer springing from the god Dionysus, but from passion itself; and "with our theme being thus completely recast, it comes to face different considerations." Music then became important to tragedy because its "rhetorics" are "surely the most intimate consort to the presentation of the passions...
...themes turn on three aspects of existence that particularly fascinate Americans: youth, sex and romance. Pepsi-Cola, once typed in the public mind as a sweet, cheap drink ("Twice as much for a nickel, too'',), almost certainly owes much of its upsurge of recent years to being recast as the product "for those who think young.'' Marlboro cigarettes, which had previously sold mainly to women, broadened their appeal when tattooed he-men began to puff them in the pages of the nation's magazines. (This kept the women loyal, attracted the men. and sent Marlboro...
...Retreads. A collection of old stars are either returning to TV after absences or beginning completely new shows. The Lloyd Bridges Show (CBS) has come out of the sea to recast Aquanut Bridges as a journalist who dreams himself into the stories he is researching. Doing a Civil War story, for example, he closes his eyes and reappears behind a rail and post fence, blazing away for the Southern cause. The story he tells-about a temporary cease-fire arranged between men close enough to talk across the lines-is both fresh and moving...