Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme of this issue (how rarely that can be said of any undergraduate publication) is the distinction between the conservative and racist attitudes toward civil rights. Generally, when unbigoted conservatives discuss civil rights, goodwill and caution are the touchstones. To these, the editors of the Conservative have added concern, even urgency, most unconservative attitudes that derive perhaps from the writers being at a most unconservative age. They understand the challenge of the New Left because they share the generations angers and outlook of the radicals. They want to talk to the New Left...
Hollywood has long been skillful in turning good books into bad movies, but Is Paris Burning is an unfortunate perversion of that well-worn theme--it takes a pretentious chunk of bad journalism and turns it into an even worse film. One is nearly awestruck at the achievement, which is perfectly fine since the only other reactions the film could possibly produce are boredom and fury at having paid the whopping three dollar admission. Paris is so interminably long, so badly acted, so deliciously incoherent that it could very well be the flop of the year, nay, the decade...
THUNDERBALL (Parrot). John Barry's theme for the new Bond movie seems to be zooming off just like his Goldfinger. The excellent voice belongs to Tom Jones, a Welsh miner...
...indeed in order. His pessimism reflects not only the plight that faces the Philippines in the next four years, but his own chances of alleviating it as well. In his successful campaign against President Diosdado Macapagal last November, Marcos made Filipino crime-smuggling, murder and government corruption-the main theme. Macapagal himself was above suspicion of foul play, but Marcos did not have to make personal accusations, for low-level crime and corruption were part of every Filipino's experience. Coupled to it was his own vibrant campaign style. Singing duets with his wife Imelda (Miss Philippines...
...theme of his work, said Lowry, quoting Critic Edmund Wilson, was "the forces in man which cause him to be terrified of himself." The theme of his letters could be the well-grounded fears that man has of other men. They are witty, light, profound and erudite. The tone is that of an infinitely gentle man whose capacity for pity was not-as in the case of most drunks-squandered on himself...