Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wright, have created a style and generally stuck with it to the end. This is not the way of Nat Owings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. If one looks at the works of S.O.M., there is an astonishing range and volume of design. S.O.M. does not play variations on a theme and is perhaps the first major architectural firm to remain uncommitted to its past...
...logical extremes. When Schoenberg dissolved traditional tonality but continued to work with late Romantic forms, Webern dissolved those too. He obliterated vertical harmonies, broke up melodies into one-or two-note fragments for each instrument and swept away all sense of development and climax. "Once stated," he said, "a theme has expressed all it has to say." In Five Pieces for orchestra and Six Bagatelles for string quartet (both 1913), his notes are scattered like stars in the night sky: tiny fire points in an icy black void...
Drama of the Decades. Packard's prevailing theme invokes one of Newton's more familiar laws. "The primary drama of recent decades," he says, "is that women have been acting and men have been reacting." Mostly, he finds, women have been acting up. To underscore his point, Packard offers a regional breakdown of the percentage of premarital experience among American women: 57% in the East, 48% in the West, 32% in the South, 25% in the Midwest. The geographic conclusion is obvious: traditional behavior dies hard in the South and Midwest, while liberation is more readily embraced...
...contributions, your reporter wrote, inter alia, that Biafrans are being "starved out by the Nigerians". Having embraced the theme of Ibo jewishness, Biafra sympathizers complete the plot by assigning to Nigerians the role of the monster Hitler. Such baseless attribution of sadism to Nigerians can come only from a dangerously naive mind or a totally malicious...
...concerts were consistently troublesome with the exciting and moving exception of the tribute to Woody Guthrie which closed the festival. Though each concert was supposed to have its own unifying theme none came off as compositions, as coherent moments save the Guthrie tribute, which was extraordinary in its beauty--and that was because Woody's friends and son succeeded in bringing him to life: and he was an extraordinarily beautiful man and brilliant poet of America...