Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because the play, though coming early in Shakespeare's career (probably 1595), is a masterpiece. It is only fair to add, however, that it owes an obviously large debt to Marlowe's magnificent Edward II, which was written two or three years earlier and which Richard II resembles in theme, structure, and numerous details. Looking in the other direction, one can say that, without the experience of fashioning here his first great tragic protagonist, Shakespeare would not have been able to create Hamlet, a closely related personality...
...PULSING now, late in the last set. Jeff Beck draws out a burr till it nearly grates and follows it with a melodious burst. Doing 'Beck's Boogey' he comes swiftly down the frets pausing only to pluck a little at each stop, then he goes into the theme which sounds a little like 'Yankee Doodle' stops midway through with finger raised, and resumes the plucking with the drums still beating. Near the end of the number he finally completes the theme--it still sounds like 'Yankee Doodle' but it's brilliant, an improvisation worthy of the best jazz musicians...
...audiovisual guide to the achievement and promise of contemporary technology, the "Tune-In" includes 20 demonstrations, and takes as its theme a quotation from Sir Francis Bacon: "The real and legitimate goal of the sciences is the endowment of human life with new inventions and riches." Visitors will be able...
...hustings, Pompidou plugged the Gaullist theme that France must polarize or perish. Campaigning in his bleak, mountainous home region of Cantal, he explained: "The choice is simple, dear friends. It must be made between totalitarian Communism and liberty and democracy." Meanwhile, all across France, Gaullist campaign workers sought to rekindle the revulsion that the average Frenchman felt toward the June violence by showing a specially prepared 30-minute film of the rioting on the Left Bank. In city after city, some 8,000 student volunteers, who call themselves "Youth for Progress," worked frantically for De Gaulle, painting Gaullist slogans...
...MORNING, by Richard Bradford. The theme is familiar-an adolescent's search for manhood-but the telling, in this first novel, is tender and humorous...