Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That was not all. The convention shouted through a resolution dismissing integration as a "failure" and urging that "black power replace assimilation and moral suasion as the dominant philosophy, theme and method of the movement"-in other words, that Negroes isolate themselves and seize power wherever they can. In a confidential memorandum distributed only to selected delegates, CORE also attacked American foreign policy, particularly the war in Viet Nam: "To support a war such as this, filled with conscious racism, is to support the racism on which it feeds. To support a war such as this is to support...
However it happens-through negotiation or just by a fade-away-the war must end some day, and it is in line with this certainty that the peace efforts will and must continue. Said Rusk in Tokyo, reiterating a favorite theme: "I would be in Geneva tomorrow if there was somebody from Hanoi and Peking to talk about peace." Trouble is, as one U.S. diplomat put it, "the other side keeps hanging up the phone." Nonetheless, while the bombs keep falling, the phone will keep ringing...
...theme will be "The Layman and educational Policy Making." The first General session will be at 2:30 p.m. on Thursday. Howe will speak that evening 08:15 p.m. in Baker 100 at the Harvard graduate School of Business Administration...
...Damocles sword" of the special safe-conduct law that was enacted-in response to Ulbricht's own requests-by the West German Parliament two weeks ago in order to permit Communist speakers to attend the second debate in West Germany without fear of arrest. Ulbricht's theme was amplified by his chief propagandist, Albert Norden. Norden demanded that the "monstrous" safe-conduct be repealed, that the Social Democrats break with the Christian Democrats on all policy relating to Ulbricht's regime and unilaterally recognize East Germany. Then, said Norden, the debates might take place...
...their implications of recurrent patterns of evil. The electronic rapidity of instantaneous information everywhere makes the plot and story line of the well-made play seem slowpoky. The modern play is all middle like a Happening, all now. Unable to conceive of a destination, it coils endlessly around its theme. Genet's The Blacks begins and ends with identical scenes; so does Ionesco's The Bald Soprano. Almost nothing has happened. There is the suggestion of unalterable and eternal repetitions in human behavior. Pinter does this almost subliminally with poetically repetitive speech patterns...