Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seeing Bringing Up Baby, one has every right to be delirious. Among devotees of its director, Howard Hawks, are those who consider Baby very serious both as a romance and as a treatment of the theme of emasculation. How serious may be arguable, but such an interpreation is admissible precisely because the two main characters, played by Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, are drawn neatly and adhered to unflaggingly. Grant is a man torn between dignity and free expression; Hepburn is a woman who expresses herself...
...educational opportunity means insuring equal achievement among minority and majority children, so the phrase has come to symbolize the problem of remaking the nation's rotting urban schools. Many of the 14 feature articles concentrate on Coleman's survey, but as might be expected, they touch on every major theme in the present crisis in urban education...
...less than we are doing. But we are not doing enough to win it the way we are doing it now." Calling for "a total national effort to win the war, to win the peace, and to complete the job that must be done at home," he sounded a theme that he is expected to repeat often: "We love nothing more than peace, but we hate nothing more than surrender and cowardice...
...latest work, The Latent Heterosexual, which opened at the Dallas Theater Center last week, is an unsuccessful attempt to weld the two Paddys. But the amusing eye-catcher of a title is only dimly related to the play, which is a symbolic satire on a rather threadbare theme: the materialistic corruption of the U.S. soul...
...THOMSON: What I am concerned about is really a contemporary manifestation of a theme in American history. You know it was Jefferson who said that the American Revolution was "intended for all mankind...