Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...post-referendum speech, Papadopoulos made it plain he was in no hurry to surrender power. He reiterated the junta's favorite theme that the "goals of the revolution" must be carried out. By that, the former colonels mean that they want to purify Greek political life, immunizing the fiery-tempered Greeks against the vicious infighting that has marked their parliamentary history. Practically every Greek realizes that Papadopoulos & Co. have set themselves a next to impossible task, so there is no telling how many years the didactic colonels may persist in their mission...
Pocketbook Appeal. On the campaign trail, both candidates do their best to appeal to pocketbook interests. Humphrey, using a theme that has been generally successful for decades, maintains that U.S. citizens "have never had it so good." He always adds: "Don't let the Republicans take it away." To support his argument, Humphrey cites "91 months of sensational economic growth," a 4% yearly rise in take-home pay for a family of four, doubled business profits and the lowest unemployment in 15 years...
...film version has taken the relationship between John Singer (Alan Arkin), the deaf-mute who unites the five disparate subplots of the novel, and a young girl named Mick (Sondra Locke), and made it the central theme of the movie. Curiously, although we now see more of Singer, he has become a guardian angel rather than the guiding light he was in the novel. One no longer has the feeling that his presence is essential in the lives of most of the characters. He now just hovers about at a distance. Singer's tragedy--the fact that he never really...
...anthology Journey to the Unknown (Thursday, 9:30-10:30 p.m., E.D.T.), ABC escorted viewers on the weirdest-and most fascinating-excursion since the days of The Twilight Zone. The first episode, an adaptation of John Collier's short story, Special Delivery, successfully elaborated on a typical Collier theme-a young man (Dennis Waterman) falls in love with a department-store mannequin (Carol Lynley) and dies in its/her arms...
...Minutes' best moments came neither out of the printed page nor the TV workshop. For its back-of-the-book finale, it showed portions of the Saul Bass documentary Why Man Creates. To probe the provocative title theme, Bass, a master of the film short, stunningly mixed cartoons, bouncing ping-pong balls and interviews with scientists. Produced for Kaiser Aluminum, the film hardly needed a magazine format for its television premi...