Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plenty to Celebrate. The main theme of the week, of course, was "crush Malaysia," and Sukarno's invaders were trying to do just that. In the biggest action of the two-year border war, more than 100 Indonesian regulars tackled British and Malaysian troops in a running jungle battle on Sarawak...
...Pope was not invited to the ecumenical council being held in Rome last week. At the Eliseo Theater, H miles from St. Peter's, delegates from eight tiny but prosperous Italian Protestant denominations met for their first congress since 1920. Theme of the meeting: how Italian Protestants can match the aggiornamento of the Vatican Council...
...many cases is, of purely secular origin. For a Massachusetts Baptist to be pro-integration, as for an Alabama Baptist to be prosegregation, may be nothing more than a response to what the society around him expects of him. Sociologist Peter L. Berger develops this theme at length in The Noise of Solemn Assemblies, Doubleday, 1961. The whole raison d'etre of Protestant Christianity lies in obedience to an authoritative divine revelation. Doing the right thing (supporting civil rights) for the wrong reason (because James Baldwin says to) may be better than not doing it at all, but it does...
...Tiger & the Ducks. The main theme of De Gaulle's speeches was equally familiar and equally effective: "Our destiny is called national prosperity." But through it, he wove the even headier subthemes of national pride and France's independence of the U.S. At the beach resort of Sables-d'Olonne, he cried, "This country, this France which has bound its wounds, is recovering its power, its influence; this France which is increasingly reckoned with from one end of the world to the other . . ." In Sainte-Hermine, he laid a wreath at the monument to Georges Clemenceau...
...really fair to quarrel with a writer's theme. What annoys me is Schwartz's laziness and pretension. He's had four plays produced at Harvard now, yet he still relies on obvious symbolism and surprisingly ineffective theatrics. He really seems to think that an adequate substitute for craft and perception...