Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again he takes a familiar, almost mythical theme, turns it upside down and irradiates it with originality. His hero is Morris Bober, an aging Brooklyn grocer who is clinging to solvency by his fingertips. But Morris is also that legendary Jewish figure of misfortune, the schlemiel, whose fate has been told and retold from the Old Testament to Sholom Aleichem. Bobers good intentions gain him nothing but hard knocks. The only dangers he escapes are imaginary ones. Yet, through all his woes, there shines unblinkingly the steady light of a good heart...
Kicking off its annual spring promotion next week, Nieman-Marcus of Texas will spend more than $250,000 on lavish circus-theme extravaganzas for its stores in Dallas and Houston, will cover floors with sawdust, fill windows with monkeys, send clowns cavorting among customers. To publicize Eagle Food Centers, a grocery chain with 29 supermarkets in Iowa and neighboring states, Joe Louis was hired last week to demonstrate basic boxing blows in rings set up in the chain's parking lots, give inspirational talks to young customers, stressing right living and good (i.e., Eagle) eating. Ex-champ Louis will...
...theme currently popular in French intellectual circles. But just how much is sound and how much simple fury? The editors of Paris' intellectual weekly Arts assigned a two-man team to measure U.S. influence in France, last week devoted five pages to their findings...
Love of Law. Twice a day they celebrated a solemn communion meal, with blessing of bread and wine. This, says Scholar Cross, was "a liturgical anticipation of the Messianic banquet" in the coming kingdom-a concept that was a common theme in the Judaism of the time. Another regular practice of the Essenes was baptism. On entering the community, individuals received a baptism on repentance of sins (unlike the later Christian practice, however, the Essene baptism was renewed each year and supplemented by continued daily ritual washings or lustrations...
William Zeckendorf, president of Webb & Knapp, Inc., set the theme for the Harvard Urban Design Conference last night when he asserted that "the future of the city must be subordinated to the city planning board...