Word: themes
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Revolt & Relation. What most interests U.S. theologians in Gogarten's work is his ap proach to history and secularization - a theme he took up during the Nazi years, about the same time that Dietrich Bonhoeffer was also exploring the consequence for Christianity of what he called the "world come of age" with out God. Unlike Bonhoeffer, whose fragmentary thinking is contained in a handful of pris on letters, Gogarten worked out a full and coherent the ology of secularization in half a dozen postwar books, five of which are being translated into English. Just published...
...into the fields covered by the film," which is a searing, silent 30-minute portrayal of a sadistic prison guard alternately beating and spying upon four convicts engaged in various homosexual acts. Worse, said the court, Chant itself has no redeem ing artistic merit. The film is devoid of theme, plot or character development...
...Cousy team figures to be a fast-breaking squad, and that is indeed the theme of the B.C. offense. They control the boards and impose a rapid tempo on the game, wearing down the opposition...
...Buckminster Fuller's 187-ft. geodesic dome. In front of it, across an arm of the St. Lawrence, the Russians are lavishing $15 million on a vast exhibition hall roofed with a wing curved as if for takeoff. All exhibitors chipped in $45 million for the hexagon-sided theme pavilions ("Man and His World") at left on the far island. For the combination of an inverted-step pyramid and a truncated pylon in the picture at left, Great Britain is ignoring austerity to invest...
Under the current interpretation of obscenity law, three elements must coalesce in order to condemn a book as obscene: "it must be established that (a) the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex; (b) the material is patently offensive because it affronts contemporary community standards ...; and (c) the material is utterly without redeeming social values...