Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issued blizzards of encyclicals and excommunicated unfriendly music critics. He cheerfully orchestrated his music for airplane propellers, lottery wheels and typewriters-and occasion ally delivered it to his friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano called Vexations-an 80-second chordal theme of only 180 notes in 52 beats. Then, in high humor, he added to the score an instruction that Vexations was to be played by a pianist with "interior immobility"-840 times in unbroken succession...
Jaded by Tom Swifties and elephant jokes, two reporters from the Detroit Free Press began improvising on an ancient and familiar journalistic theme. "How do you do," said one, "I'm Brown, from the Sun." Replied his colleague: "I'm Trotter, from the Globe." By last week newspapers all over the U.S. were busy adding new "pressies" to an already interminable list. Samples: "I'm Rich, from the Advertiser." "Sign, of the Times." "Cash, from the Register." "Jefferson, of the Constitution." "Flat, from the Press." "Weary, of the World." "Feather, from the Eagle." "Twinkle, from the Star...
Kinship was the theme. "Since I belong to a large, close family myself, I can see how horrible it must be for the many Berliners separated from their relatives behind the Wall," said Mrs. Rose Kennedy. The trip to West Berlin held a bit of nostalgia, for as a schoolgirl she had visited the city. Besides, she said, she wanted to see again the city that had given her son such a tumultuous welcome. But the visit was short. By week's end she was back in Hyannis Port to join her three sons for the quiet family celebration...
...that downgrading works seems less acceptable than ever to self-justifying, activist modern man. A third and more serious challenge to traditional Lutheran thinking came from the Federation's Commission on Theology: modern Biblical study makes it clear that justification is not, as Luther thought, the dominating theme of the New Testament...
...story follows Jennie Malone as she goes with her irresponsible actor-husband, James O'Conner, and their two children from one dilapidated theatre to another. The company presents spectacular melodramas that are presented on stage with intentional exaggeration. The production's depressing central theme deals with Jennie's struggle to save her marriage for the sake of her children, though her husband's consistent inability to face unpleasant realities causes her to lose all respect for him. In the end she realizes that by staying with him she is only dragging herself down. She eventually decides to leave...