Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's summer program, initiated in 1962 with an NSF grant, provides some ten juniors each year with an opportunity to do field research somewhere in the world. The student lives in a village, and researches some aspect of the native life, which generally becomes the theme of his undergraduate thesis...
...President took his keynote theme from Lincoln: "We must ask 'where we are and whither we are tending.'" Indeed, until Johnson actually began to speak, almost no one had any notion whither he would tend. Newsmen got no hint of the President's plans during his long, sequestered sojourn at the L.B.J. ranch. At the White House, security precautions were so rigid that reporters were barricaded out of hearing range of the typing pool so that they could not eavesdrop on secretaries proofreading the speech aloud. Johnson held his options open until the eleventh hour, ordering innumerable...
...Marie F. Burns, 76. His father died when John was a year old, and his mother subsequently remarried three times-once to a gold prospector who had been in the Klondike. Gardner recalls listen ing raptly to stories of the Gold Rush. "In each," he says, "the central theme was constant-riches left untapped...
Taking the oath at his third inauguration, Iowa's Democratic Governor Harold Hughes bluntly stated the theme...
...central inspiration of Miss Greenspan's poem suggests the major theme of the entire issue. After "turning the day clockless" the poetess becomes concerned with discovering "some sequence of tense." Marshall Berman and Anne Bernays similarly have attempted to find some sequence of events in their pasts, which help clarify their present attitudes and feelings. Kroch and Aufhauser have observed the conflicts between a traditional way of life and the demands of modernity. Russo and Hamburg have prssented fragments of the past in fiction and poetry. Mosaic does not try to put together the puzzle of the past; it successfully...