Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also called Blood, Sweat & Tears-sounds like many different bands. In Smiling Phases, it is a hard-chugging blues-rock outfit with a fillip of modern jazz. In Blues-Part II, it is a modern jazz combo with a streak of contemporary classical dissonance. In Variations on a Theme by Erik Satie, it is a chamber ensemble with pastoral flutes, Bartokian brass and a buzz of electronic sound effects...
...Calkins appeared before the education subcommittee again and urged them to send more money into the cities' vocational education programs. And less than six weeks ago, Calkins--serving as chairman of the National Advisory Council on Vocational Education--hit the same theme, saying that job training classes in schools would save the country millions of dollars that it now spends on remedial training for unemployable adults...
...flower child strand of student militarism because it bears directly on the problems of "alienation" which provide the rationale of revolt. Many in the New Left see the answer to alienation in the mystical striving for community among comrade-students. Their philosophy of love emphasizes "touching one another." The theme of "touching one another" has somehow gotten mixed up with the ghetto concept of "soul" and the Hollywood concept of "beautiful people." What results is a syrupy emotion alleged to strike beautiful people very intensely during moments of civil disobedience...
...theme of Don Juan is also used throughout the play to good purpose in emphasizing the estrangement of the two artists from the rest of society. In the first part, Pushkin and his wife attend Don Giovanni. Pushkin admires Mozart because he, too, was a natural genius, and he admires the Don Juan theme because its hero is a man who "did not take things as they are." Pushkin's most famous poem, Eugene Onegin, is a treatment of that subject, and it is partly on this poem and partly on Byron's Don Juan that Lermontov bases the story...
...hard news" concept, the show's basic theme, includes all the important events that have happened since the 11 p.m. newscasts of the previous night. "We won't use hashed-over news," Benti insists. "It is either new, or our way of approaching it is new." One of the new approaches is a continuing series on life in the ghetto, interpreted by Correspondent John Hart. By zeroing in on a two-block area along Washington's Columbia Road, the Bend team hopes to involve its audience in the problems and progress-or retrogression-of a small group...