Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to base the election on that, consider that Brown's been in office eight years and he hasn't done much about our problems!" And he punches hard at the fact that "citizen-politicians" can construct the "Creative Society" that Reagan uses as his campaign theme. "Don't forget," he says, "there weren't any professional politicians when this country started...
Today, if the novel and the stage are dominated by any one theme, it is the psychology of alienation, in which human crisis is explained not by a single case history but by a sort of cosmic hypochondria, a feeling of universal futility. This trend seems to be reflected in clinical experience. The old compulsion neuroses and guilt feelings, many psychologists report, are being replaced by diffuse anxiety neuroses and a vague sense of meaninglessness. According to Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, the new fashion in popular psychology "reflects a greater interest in social interrelationships-it's more outward...
...needn't have. The 1960 bestseller (The Centurions) by Jean Larteguy described with a certain politico-military sophistication how French colonels, beaten in Indo-China, applied terrorist tactics to the struggle for Algeria. From this epic theme, Director Mark Robson has derived one of those big bad action pictures in which the explosions look frighteningly real but unfortunately don't kill off the actors fast enough...
...continue to do so. But now that that battle has been won and the general slack in the economy virtually eliminated, it becomes even more urgent to look more closely at the unemployment which remains even in good times. So let me talk today not about the common economic theme of the benefits of general prosperity, but rather about the longer term issues of overcoming the barriers to full economic equality...
Stokely Carmichael, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, brought a simple message with him when he visited Boston in mid-August: the leadership and support of the different organizations in the ghetto must be controlled by NegroesOver and over, he repeated the theme, "We must do it ourselves...