Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where 100 high schools have developed experimental humanities courses, using a rough guideline prepared by state education officials. In most schools, English, social studies, music and art are linked in a common curriculum, taught either by a team of teachers or in individual courses that coincide in timing and theme...
Hillbilly Opera. In discussing the search for order, teachers show how this theme is found in such works as Oedipus Rex, Hamlet, The Divine Comedy and Death of a Salesman. To help them understand the difficulties of achieving esthetic order, music students at Garden City have been assigned the problem of writing operas of their own: in one, a hillbilly, over his mother's strong objections, goes to New York to pursue a career as a folk singer and becomes famous. Art students take a Vermeer masterpiece and, on a transparent overlay, convert his realism into a cubist painting...
Often the purpose is to launch a new enterprise. Manhattan Adman Burt Pence, 28, and Lawyer Todd Merer, 27, invited 2,000 guests to a party in Greenwich Village last week with the theme, "Sin and Soul in the Seventies," featuring a "monster happening" at midnight with a recording of Kate Smith singing The Star-Spangled Banner, a karate exhibition, and chorines in fluorescent tights and gas masks. The party grossed $5,500, and its profits will go to finance a boutique the pair hopes to open. If they don't have enough for that, they will...
...three years, Hertz Corp., the No. 1 company in the U.S. car-rental field, stood stolidly by while Avis Inc., No. 2, successfully needled away with its "We try harder" advertising campaign. But no longer. Now Hertz, having changed ad agencies, is trying to turn Avis' own theme against it. Typical of the new Hertz ads: "For years, Avis has been telling you Hertz is No. 1. Now we're going to tell...
...Three Little Pigs (1933), Disney foreshadowed the work of his full-length films. Crisp in color, jaunty in jingly music (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?), the movie was also a significant departure in its simply stated moral theme. In Snow White, Disney and his staff met the challenge of creating believable characters. Each of the seven dwarfs, from sober-sided Doc to dim-bulb Dopey, had a distinct personality. In Cinderella, a handful of Disney creations nearly stole the show: the bloodthirsty but fatuous cat Lucifer, and the nimble mice, Jaq and Gus-Gus. Millions...