Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, Washington's economic managers scaled these heights by their adherence to Keynes's central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency, but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government. Keynes was the first to demonstrate convincingly that government has not only the ability but the responsibility to use its powers to increase production, incomes and jobs. Moreover, he argued that government can do this without violating freedom or restraining competition. It can, he said, achieve calculated prosperity by manipulating three main tools: tax policy, credit policy...
...chamber music is all but irrepressible. An Army officer's wife one day was approached by a stranger who noticed a telltale mark on her neck: "You must play the violin. Would you like to join our group?" A Boston doctor, hearing a man whistling a Mozart theme on the street, whistled back and soon had a date for duets. One desperate violinist pinned notes to trees in his neighborhood...
...Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." > Whether it also "goes substantially beyond customary limits of candor" to the point of "patent offensiveness...
Another variation on the theme is a stretch suit (Ernest Engel: $130) that features a convertible collar and bell-bottom pants that fit-over the boot (an inner sleeve runs inside the boot to keep out the snow). Even knickers, once available only in bulky corduroy and baggy wool, now come in stretch-fabric that hugs the hips and thighs tighter-and rather more attractively -than a girdle...
...dance concert." He wants to jump from medium to medium in an attempt to dissolve the boundaries between reality and dreams. "Have you ever been to a subway station?" he asks. "It is a totally man-made world of pure fantasy." For his Costume Party, the theme "left me free to range from contemporary experience to Greco-Roman metamorphosis of man to beast. It's illustrative of the many faces between man and woman in the nature of reality...