Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...globe with a radiant smile, Castro at the Bay of Pigs invasion, a defiant David facing a hideous U.S. Goliath. A reporter asked if art was giving way to politics. "No," said the instructor. "We give the children complete freedom in what they do. I just give them a theme. Last week we talked about Algeria and the Congo. Today, I'll tell them about South Viet...
...find the right topic. Then one day in 1959, he was leafing through the New York Times when he noticed a headline, EISENHOWER APPOINTEE SLAIN. He read the story of the senseless killing of Wheat Farmer Herbert Clutter and his family, and he suddenly realized that he had his theme. Why not do a crime from beginning to end? "A crime would not date, and it would provide an enormous range of characters...
...when Charulata falls in love with Bhupati's poet brother, as a refuge from her barrenness. At the end, however, the husband and wife manage to find love within the conventions of marriage, by accepting not their fate but each other. In Charulata Ray is reiterating a long-standing theme--that no circumstances are too dire to preclude happiness. The director's constant optimism becomes especially impressive in the context of modern India...
...president of the California Democratic Council, which represents some 75,000 of the farthest-left Democrats in the state. Recently Casady, a onetime newspaper editor, has been going about California condemning Lyndon Johnson and attacking the Vietnamese war as legally, morally and politically indefensible. Warming up to his theme, he told audiences: "It takes more guts to burn a draft card than to go to war. Some people have the guts to stand and say, 'We will not fight for what we don't believe...
Nature's Teaching. For the classically oriented viewer, a prospect was pleasing to the degree that it was orderly. It was not until romanticism emerged around 1820 that the essential dialogue between man and nature was articulated as central theme in the quest of an American idendity. Nowhere is the theme better illustrated then in the current exhibition at Manhattan's Metropopitan Museum selected more then 450 for display in 22 galleries (see following six pages in color...