Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Emmett Dedmon, executive editor of the Chicago Sun-Times, at George Williams College: "May the explosions of your generation cut as clean as those which freed the capsule of Gemini IV from the booster engines." Whatever his fellow editors might think of that particular metaphor, Dedmon stated the dominant theme of the 1965 commmencement speeches: the "explosions" of the younger generation...
SHIRLEY BASSEY BELTS THE BEST! (United Artists). The mulatto Tigress from Tiger Bay, the waterfront district of Cardiff, is big in London but never had a blazing hit in the U.S. until she hammered out the brazen curtain raiser to Goldfinger The Goldfinger theme song also opens this album of Broadway ballads, including Peo ple and Once in a Lifetime, all emotionally amplified by the torchy singer...
...Mike Todd's T-21, composed of a real, honest-to-goodness No. 1 wood right off the links, to which have been attached clusters of wooden globules. - Ernest Trova's Study, repeating his theme of falling men, with six chrome-plated look-alikes joined at their feet in a sculpture similar to the spiky piece in a child's game of jacks...
...ignore "racial" distinctions. But when we come to think of ourselves in the flux of history and in the sense that we are a function of groupings of mankind, then we must honestly admit the polarity of our feelings. Therefore, however erroneously "race" may have become a major theme of recent history, it does have practical significance; and it must be faced carefully and creatively--if we are ever to undo its consequences. The selection of the terms, African and Afro-American--rather than black, or colored, or Negro, or non-Caucasian, or non-white, or ...--may be interpreted...
...essay is didactic: "we are not longer content with some quality, Harvard." And her thesis, which could be the theme of this, the first Harvard-Radcliffe Yearbook, is simple: Cliffies must resolve their ambivalent position in the college community as girls, and girls, who go to Harvard. But Miss Levine's utopia rings false: "we want football tickets, travelling fellowships, representation on educational policy committees." Hers is a world of things, not emotions, desires, or values (and, except for fellowships, they are rather small things at that: "we want a graduation ceremony that is part of Harvard's.") Her tragi...