Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though my body was being desecrated. Once I looked down and I swear my legs ended at the knees. Oh McBain, vile college lad, why did you poke about in the Doctor's speeches and spoil all the careful development of the younger-generation-knocking-on-the-door theme? There was no method to your wretched emmendations...
These two views of the possibility of Communist unity more or less set the theme for this week's worldwide conference of Communist parties in Budapest. Still, it is remarkable enough that it is taking place at all. For nearly eight years, the Russians have been vainly trying to bring about a Communist summit, chiefly in order to embarrass and isolate the renegade Chinese. Now that they have finally got their way, they have few illusions about what will be achieved. In fact, the meeting demonstrates the parlous disrepair into which the once proud Communist monolith has fallen...
...other variation on the theme, a club member wrote a paper for a popular course on "The English Fishing Trade in the 18th Century." To top off his effort, he cut out a picture of a fish from a National Geographic and pasted it on his title page. The man received an A-for his effort and submitted it to the club file. The next year another man pulled out the paper, retyped it, pasted on the fish to the title page, handed it in, and received an A-. The following year, another club member withdrew the paper, retyped...
...measure of Arthur Miller, Lerner has attempted a well-knit family drama tackling a coherent question: is exile a valid means of protesting repression? Lerner narrows in on this subject through the character of an 18-year-old anti-Nazi whose conviction derives largely from jealousy. The secondary theme is thus the effect of personal motives on the legitimacy of political sentiment...
LICHTHEIM'S theme, stated most fully at the end of the first essay, is straightforward enough. The central problem in the philosophy of the last 200 years, he argues, is posed in this question: "how could the rationality of history be perceived by the intellect, given the fact that men are both inside and outside the historical process?" This leads to the search for a vantage point--an "identical subject-object of history'--from which to view the disparate and fluid arrangements of human affairs. To look at history from any but this vantage point would be to obtain...