Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even before Hoffa sang his melody, the same theme was batted out by none other than Harry Bridges, Red-lining boss of the West Coast International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, and a dedicated enemy of George Meany's A.F.L.-C.I.O. (the C.I.O. ousted Bridges and his union long ago). Crowed Bridges: "There's one thing I know. If the Teamsters and the two dock unions [i.e., his own and the East Coast's International Longshoremen's Association, also ousted] got together, they'd represent more economic power than the combined A.F.L...
Even so, methodical Walter Kohler was taking no chances, began campaigning last week for the general election Aug. 27. His first decision: to campaign on the same theme, "the record of the Republican Administration in Washington." He was quickly established the favorite over Democratic Primary Winner William Proxmire, 41, who has also run three times for governor and has thrice been beaten (twice by Kohler). Reason: Yaleman Proxmire, who preserves the common touch by staying in $2.50 hotel rooms and writing speeches on a typewriter in the back of his Chevrolet campaign car, is also classed in Wisconsin among...
...four-power "working paper" presented in person by John Foster Dulles, far from being just another facile essay in the propaganda of cold war, represented an imaginative and intricate effort to formulate-under the common theme of safeguarding against surprise attack-a program taking careful account of all the multiplicity of national interests of the U.S. and its allies, and of the Soviet Union...
...other hand, take Ibsen, who was primarily a thematic writer, consciously arguing theses. Ibsen was greatest when he got away from his theme--as in Peer Gynt, compared with, say, Enemy of the People. Peer Gynt is enormously his greatest work...
Question: "What play of Shakespeare deals with jealousy aroused by a traitor out of pure hatred?" Answer: "Othello, of course." True; but Shakespeare had also treated this subject previously, for it is the main theme of Much Ado About Nothing. And he would return to it again, with self-interest substituted for pure hatred, in Cymbeline. The material for all three variations on the theme came from earlier sources...