Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem the Center will be dealing with--the organizational failures of American medicine--was the theme of a strongly-worded report issued recently by the President's Commission on Health Manpower. The 14-member commission, which included Ebert, Mary I. Bunting, president of Radcliffe, and Dr. Alonzo S. Yerby, professor of Health Services Administration, wrote that "Medical care in the United States is more a collection of bits and pieces--with overlapping, duplication, great gaps, high costs and wasted effort--than an integrated system in which needs and efforts are closely related...
BEDAZZLED. Two members of the wily Beyond the Fringe foursome play Faust and loose with an old theme as a meek short-order cook (Dudley Moore) sells his soul to the Devil (Peter Cook) in return for seven wishes...
...Marianna and his yearning for the uncomplicated youth of Nadine." Given this dilemma, Resnais and screen-writer Jorge Semprun probe the nature of commitment to a cause, and the necessity of commitment even to a lost cause in order to live with self respect. This is a Fritz Lang theme, but where Lang sees commitment as necessary but essentially futile, Resnais and Semprun find for Diego, in Milne's words, "a complete reconciliation within himself, of past, present and future, fears conquered and ideals regained." La Guerre Est Finie has the beauty and integrity of the greatest...
Before television, millions of Americans got their first visual news of the outside world from a seat in a movie theater. The lights went down, a stirring theme song swelled, and "News of the Day" or Pathe's crowing rooster flashed on the screen. Even the grimness of today's on-the-spot TV coverage of Viet Nam had parallels in the scene of an injured Chinese baby bawling in the ruins of the Japanese-bombed railway station in Shanghai, in films of Hitler's armies marching across Europe and scenes of the fall of Corregidor. Until...
...appreciated in the U.S. The four novellas in The Puzzleheaded Girl should firmly establish her reputation as a writer who can make the familiar meaningful without gimmickry. It is not without some reason that her work has been compared to that of Nabokov and Isak Dinesen. Her essential theme in The Puzzleheaded Girl is rootlessness. Her characters are continually trying to flee themselves. Europeans come to America only to find that they and their new country are incompatible; Americans go to Europe and dream of coming home. Miss Stead also fences with the discontents and ambiguities of big-city life...