Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues are beginning to emerge. For the Democrats, the theme will be peace, prosperity, preparedness-and prudence. They are also carpentering strong platform planks on civil rights, extremism and nuclear-weapons control as challenges to the G.O.P. platform positions. To Barry Goldwater, one key issue is the military strength and stance of the U.S. The fairness or unfairness of the press promises to become an issue (see THE PRESS). And an important factor will be the so-far-uncharted effect of the "backlash" against the civil rights revolution...
Goldwater's running mate, Bill Miller, echoed the theme. He complained that the press and television had over played the backing given to the Republican candidate by far-right groups and made it look as if "it is the kooks who support Goldwater." The press and television had not given such treatment to the Democrats, he charged. "Why don't they put the question to that Communist, Gus Hall, on whether he is for President Johnson?" asked Miller. "The Ku Klux Klan always supports the Democratic Party," he said, with a rather outdated perspective, "but it is never...
...critics call it inbred, conservative, Southern-dominated. This reputation stems from such instances as the time (1910) when the A.B.A. president decried the "dangerous" doctrine of interpreting the Constitution as "an elastic instrument." Nearly half a century later, A.B.A. orations on the same theme reportedly drove Chief Justice Warren to resign in 1959. In the early 1950s, the A.B.A. approved resolutions opposing social security for lawyers and supporting a 25% ceiling on income taxes. It still has only a handful of Negro members. In 1960 it elected as president a Mississippian-John C. Satterfield-who later advised Governor Ross Barnett...
...NOTION, by Ken Kesey. The author's first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, took place in an insane asylum and proposed the paradox that a good man is hated by lesser men equally in triumph and defeat. This second novel, which repeats the same theme in a larger setting, is less effective for the added dimensions, yet is as exuberant and brawling as the Pacific Northwest lumbering country it describes...
...that grisly, excruciatingly detailed study of a samurai's ritual suicide, Japanese Director Masaki Kobayashi sets the theme of a 17th century tragedy on honor in death-and the death of honor. The victims are two ronin, or unemployed samurai left to starve when their lordly masters are disfranchised following a civil...