Word: theme
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THERE'S no business like global business" might be called the theme of this week's cover story on the expansion of American industry abroad. Traditionally, in this year-end issue, TIME presents a comprehensive view of major trends and portents in the economy. This year the spotlight centers on the dramatic internationalization of U.S. enterprises-the reshaping of American companies into complex supranational entities...
...90th Congress ended its cantankerous first session last week, Lyndon Johnson gave the nation a preview of his re-election campaign. A dominant theme in 1968, he made clear, would be the mass-and the meaning -of legislation he has extracted from Capitol Hill since he took office. And for whatever laws the President wanted and failed to get, Republican obstructionism would take the blame...
...four-minute skit and a 107-minute movie. What is worse, their script is padded with imbecile yock lines ("I love Lucifer," or in a conversation about God "But he is English isn't he?"). As a result, the film plays Faust and loose with a grand old theme...
...concert got off to a shaky start with the Mozart. Each of three major allegro sections begins with a set of fugal entries which leave the first and second violons especially exposed. In each case the entrance were painfully ragged. On the other hand; the second theme-group dialogues between oboe and flute were exquisite examples of ensemble and musicianship...
When the major novel about the Nazi terror is written, its theme will almost certainly be not physical brutality but moral decay. Night Falls on the City merely anticipates the probability. Some of the animal savagery is there, and the death and suffering, but what is even more shameful is the almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband...