Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relative merits of what has been called "creeping feminism" at the College will be the theme of a Student Council sponsored panel discussion in Winthrop House tonight...
...Robinson Hall Professor N. T. Newton, Chairman of the Department of Architectural Sciences, repeated the same theme. "There may be relationships, such as proportion," he stated, "that we feel can be used today, but to copy the exact form does not follow. Our educational system has been built upon an over-regard for similarity, yet it is the differences after all that count.... What we need to do is to let the form of a design evolve out of the place and times and human need...
Without arguing that the myth Stone exploits is necessarily because it is so hackneyed and largely untrue, I am more than satiated with the South-is-so-sick theme. Especially from a new writer, it is disappointing that the old cliches are hauled out once more. No Place To Run is supposedly about events in the Mississippi of the present and Stone is not writing fantasy. In fact, he goes out of his way to inject as many contemporary references as possible while evading the law of libel and slander. Without in any way acting as an apologist...
Hotspur lies dead, however, at the end of the play, and the coming repudiation of Falstaff is announced near the beginning. Shakespeare's theme, one of his favorites, is the defeat of high disorder and glorious idiosyncrasy by a comparatively hum-drum and rather chilly practicality, in the person of Henry, Prince of Wales. In Part II of Henry IV Shakespeare shows us that Hotspur's colleagues are merely anarchic self-seekers and that Falstaff and his friends have a sizeable streak of moral rottenness; in Henry V the now-eponymous hero reconciles (with some disturbing overtones) personal grandeur with...
...report emphasized the Committee's concern for individualism. "Complete freedom with additional opportunity for those who can benefit by it is the whole theme of our discussion of student-faculty relationships," the Committee stated...