Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solid Evidence. The significance of the program lies beneath the figure juggling. For years, Washington has given lip service to the idea that recipients of aid must show they deserve it by helping themselves. This time, Johnson emphasized his theme of "action, not promises," in his message to Congress. Specifically, the U.S. expects beneficiary nations to "invest every possible resource in improving farming techniques, in school and hospital construction and in critical industry; make land reforms, tax changes and other basic adjustments necessary to transform their societies; face the population problem squarely and realistically; create the climate that will attract...
...time Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew arrived on the scene half an hour later, police billies had subdued the rioters. Lee soothed them with an apology for the "misunderstanding" and a pep talk in faultless Malay on his favorite theme, the satisfaction of Singapore's multiracial way of life. When Lee put down his bullhorn, the recruits cheered him heartily. Still, it was a close call. Communal rioting in July and September 1964 took more than 100 lives and caused severe property damage. Though Lee told the recruits that they could certainly remain in the Army, it seemed equally...
...sifting of ashes of a dead past." Thus whisper the winds of melancholy around a decaying palazzo in the Tuscan town of Volterra, where Director Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
...mother, on the other hand, was "warm and gushing." Dag was her fourth son, and because she had yearned all along for a daughter, she dressed young Dag for a long time in girl's clothes. Says Stolpe: "One may, without wishing to touch upon a delicate theme, guess at some connection between, on the one hand, Dag's attitude to his devotedly loved, exacting mother and his stern, reserved demigod of a father and, on the other, the fact that throughout his life he remained not only unmarried but so far as is known without any realistic...
Typically plotless, Ohayo derives theme, story and soul from the easy rhythm of middle-class existence. If it has heroes, they are two ebullient rebel schoolboys (Koji Shidara, Masahiko Shimazu), whose chief concerns are watching TV at the home of disreputable neighbors ("who loll around the house in Western-style nightgowns," a mother complains), resisting parental authority in any form, or eating pumice stone because they believe it helps them to break wind voluntarily, an achievement esteemed by their peers. The boys' innocent vulgarity is rooted in a world of gossipy housewives, aged parents clinging to tradition, working fathers...