Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heart of the Matter. This is a favorite theme of Bundy's. "Very near the heart of all foreign affairs," he wrote 14 years ago in a preface to a collection of Dean Acheson's state papers, "is the relationship between policy and military power...
...heritage for his fellow Jews. But Buber, recalls his friend Rabbi Abraham Heschel of Manhattan, also said: "I'm not a Jewish philosopher. I'm a universal philosopher." From his roots in Judaism, Buber spoke to the world at large, propounding a philosophy of dialogue whose central theme was, "All real life is a meeting." To Buber, man achieved his authentic existence only in loving encounter with God and his fellow man. He called this relationship I-Thou, in contrast to I-It, where individuals deal with one another as objects. For many Christian thinkers, Buber...
...five-year low (then rallied 3%), and the French Government, in an unprecedented move, admitted that it had intervened to support the price of some shares on the Bourse. There are certainly some bothersome problems in a few of the free world's economies. Yet the dominant theme of the industrial nations is expansion, and the problems that do exist have largely been caused by efforts to keep that expansion from running away...
...further glamorize a morbid theme, Director William Wyler daubs it somewhat irrelevantly in full color. Yet his sure professionalism makes every important scene insidiously effective. The sense of stifling confinement is established at the outset when Clegg, in a van, stalks his victim toward a narrow byway where he can still her screams with chloroform. Wyler coolly, almost perversely, manipulates audience sympathy when Clegg tries to fob off an unexpected visitor while water seeps down from an upstairs bathroom where Miranda, lashed and gagged, has made the tub overflow. Later, she attacks her jailer with a shovel one dismal English...
Unexpected Banns. The poet in Phyllis McGinley marked time for cautious years, however, before zeroing in on her life's theme. Measured against the high standards she had set as a little girl, New York in the Depression 1930s...