Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal theme in many of the speeches at Memorial Church was the personal experience of fasting, rather than political action. "This is not potent political action in that context," Mendelshon said. "We are people getting together to strengthen our commitment to what will be a long and hard struggle...
Furthermore, he claimed that the writing was filled with "foul language, obscenity, and indecent sexual acts." One of the several criteria for obscenity set forth by the U. S. Supreme Court insists that "the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest." Yet the Hansons could not have judged the material "as a whole" since they admitted that they had looked at only parts of the books. And some of the score of "concerned citizens" who joined the Hansons in signing a petition of complaint had not read a single paragraph of the allegedly offensive...
Director Claude Chabrol, a disciple of Hitchcock, shoots more for nuance than frisson. It is his wily variations on a hoary theme that give La Femme Infidèle its own small distinction. A wealthy Parisian insurance man (Michel Bouquet) takes casual note that his supple young wife (Stephane Audran) acts rather nervous when he interrupts her on the telephone. He engages a private detective to follow her on her shopping trips to Paris and has his worst suspicions quickly confirmed: she is having an affair. Her paramour is a writer (Maurice Ronet) who lives mostly off his "independent means...
Each issue of the Time-sized monthly will be "heavy in visual humor." Hoffman explained, and will feature a "theme." "Big Business, Money, and Greed" will be the theme of the second issue, due in April...
...JOURNAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). Rehabilitation of mental patients through intensive "confrontation therapy" at the David Singer Zone Center at Rockford, III., is the subject of "To Save Tomorrow." Eight succeeding 30-minute programs on the same theme in other locales will be seen Wednesdays at 8, beginning this week...