Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...total of 19 students rose to address the meetings, and no common theme emerged. SDS plenipotentiary Peter Orris '67 wondered if anyone could define the "power structure" at Harvard. Evan Davis '66, who is on the Harvard Undergraduate Council during the winter, volunteered to do so, and described the roles of the University's various governing bodies...
...hard to understand why three such different plays have been combined into one program at the Experimental Theater. No sooner is the mood for one established than it is over and a completely new theme takes over the stage. The caliber of acting varies tremendously among the three, ranging from very bad to superb...
Salvation, in a word, is the theme of Demian-and of all the important novels (Siddhartha, Narziss und Goldmund, Glasperlenspiel) that followed it. In them all Hesse writes with the subtle and mocking simplicity of an oracle; almost every sentence must be sifted for double or triple meanings. And he never condescends to the little tricks of storytelling that make reading easy. He is totally, Germanically humorless, and time and again displays the absurdity of the selfabsorbed: when he tries to be serious about life, he often manages merely to be earnest about himself. Yet at his best Hesse writes...
...PAWNBROKER. A troubled old Jew measures his memories of Nazi terror against the realities of life in Spanish Harlem. Rod Steiger's performance in the title role adds authority to a grim theme...
Civil rights groups lined up before a Judiciary subcommittee last week to demand his rejection. Representative John Conyers, a Negro member of the House Judiciary Committee, summed up: "Throughout his public statements runs a consistent theme. He is the only person with the legal experience and skill to consistently outmaneuver the federal courts, Congress and the Executive. He is the thinking man's segregationist." Star witness for the Administration was Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, who argued that Coleman's steady defense of law and order in the hostile atmosphere of Mississippi was "worth a hundred campaign speeches...