Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELGAR: SYMPHONY NO. 1 (Seraphim). The symphony opens with a marchlike tune that charms the listener with its opulence and nostalgia. Unfortunately, the same theme crops up throughout the rest of the work, and though Elgar's variations are inventive, the work lacks variety. The Philharmonia, however, never sounded better. Conductor Sir John Barbirolli gives coherence to Elgar's romantic flights while retaining a special sympathy for their almost Kiplingesque quality...
Oratory and Opera. Building on that foundation, Republicans hoped to make Miami Beach the prelude for even bigger victories. Fittingly, the man they selected to strike the theme for the convention by delivering its keynote speech was Washington's Dan Evans. The age of television demands a keynoter who is young, attractive and vigorous. Evans is the prototype of a class of pragmatic, nondoctrinaire, problem-solving Republicans who came to the forefront after the 1964 debacle. Before television, keynote speeches were all too often incredible and interminable. Historian Mark Sullivan once called them "a combination of oratory, grand opera...
Where the Action Is. Evans was overhauling the speech up to the last minute, but its theme was one that he had conceived from the first: the bewildering pace of change in the nation today, and the challenge that this poses to the G.O.P. "This party should not fear to tread new paths," he wrote in his second draft, "for change in all its forms has been the generating force of America's greatness." The G.O.P. "must be where the action...
...internal affairs of other people." Was he lambasting the U.S. role in Viet Nam, as usual? Not at all. He was talking about the Soviet Union's squeeze on Czechoslovakia - a matter that exercised many of the 15,000 delegates far more than the festival's official theme of "solidarity with the Vietnamese people in their struggle against the American imperialist aggressors...
Zapping a Toothpick. That incident, too recent for inclusion in this hastily updated book, nevertheless echoes the theme: the Administration's attempts to arrive at a formula for peace have been less than brilliant and often self-defeating. The President of the U.S. has spent an extraordinary amount of time poring over reconnaissance photographs, trying to decide whether a toothpick bridge can be zapped without damage to nearby tenement hovels. But for all this attention to minutiae, he has been unable to exercise control at some crucial moments...