Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard M. Nixon's moving quotation of the Ohio teen-ager's sign stating "Bring us together again" is a most fitting theme for the launching of a new administration. I can think of no more appropriate way to begin this than by Nixon's utilizing the magnificent talents of Hubert H. Humphrey in some capacity after the inauguration...
...than success, which often tempts winners to keep repeating the tactics that achieved their triumphs. Defeat, on the other hand, is both a humbling and a corrective process. It compels a man to examine why he lost and, beyond that, to dis cover what he has left. The great theme of Greek tragedy is the inevitability of defeat and the triumph of surviving...
...most imaginative auction to date. The scene was a basement cafeteria in the new Monsanto Co. headquarters designed by Vincent Kling; the basement's rugged concrete walls were turned into a castle keep by the addition of bright banners, shields and coats of arms. The theme of the auction was Camelot. Up for bids were dozens of items calculated to tempt the fantasies of the 800 patrons, who paid $50 a ticket to get into the black-tie affair...
...story is a variation on the familiar theme of country boy in the big city. Arizona Deputy Sheriff Walt Coogan (Clint Eastwood) is a steely-eyed loner who hunts down criminals as a kind of blood sport. His boss sends him to Manhattan to extradite a prisoner named Ringerman (Don Stroud), who is in Bellevue recovering from an acid trip. He cons the doctors into releasing him, but Ringerman's girl Linny (Tisha Sterling) and a pal named Pushie sap Coogan as he is about to step on the plane for Arizona, stealing his gun and his prisoner. Coogan then...
...giving opponents an opportunity to criticize without heckling. He allowed 1,200 Syracuse University students to sing a ballad to counter his campaign, and even silenced his supporters who tried to interrupt them. The song the students chose was Simon and Garfunkel's The Sounds of Silence, a theme that has hardly marked the 1968 campaign...