Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then by what standards, with what vocabulary, may we begin to classify this unclassifiable body of scholars? We must look, clearly, for what is designated in lower level English courses as the Unifying Theme. With some exuberant exceptions, the Unifying Theme for Harvard undergraduates is malaise. It is a vague malaise to be sure. Most often only a brooding ostenato to gayer melodies, but there nonetheless. No simple response to those thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to, the Harvard Malaise is a nagging self-dissatisfaction, a dearth of inner order, despite any personal triumph. The fact that...
...variant on the Expulsion theme is seen in the fellow who, in his first two years at Harvard severs the umbilical ties wiwth his teenage civilization with ostensible success. But sometime in his junior or senior year he develops an insatiable craving for high school culture. Oddly, he is most often one who despised that way of life as a high school senior. But suddenly, having always hated rock 'n' roll, he finds himself singing surf songs in the shower, going to drive-in movies, to Saturday night "Y" dances, bowling, and travelling out with the boys...
...WOMAN. Man's inhumanity is the theme of this squalid but often hilarious Italian comedy about a punk promoter and his wife, a girl covered from head to toe with brown silky hair...
...Whistler to Venice to seek new understanding of light and water. But the essential music of Venice, if not its counterpoint-sun-stippled plazas, majestic palaces, bustling, brightly clad people-always escaped them. In later life, painting steadily until his death in 1768, Canaletto essayed fanciful variations on his theme with almost surreal capriccios, whose brooding ruins bespoke the ancient grandeur that dissolved in carnival...
...politics, it seems, bad times make good slogans. Herbert Hoover's promise of "a chicken in every pot" did not get him re-elected in 1932, but it was a far more ingenious catch phrase than the Republicans' 1944 theme, "Time for a change," or "I like Ike" in 1952. And for all John F. Kennedy's eloquence, no Democratic orator since the Depression has matched Franklin D. Roosevelt's phrasemaking prowess on behalf of "the forgotten man." Lyndon Johnson's vision of "the Great Society" is not only vague, but vieille vague as well...