Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Depression, the Vice President, who styles himself a "man of tomorrow," comes out in favor of liberty, peace, justice, free expression, knowledge, public accountability, meaningful work, open opportunity, public compassion, movement and free association, privacy, rest and recreation and patriotism-everything but the "politics of joy," a theme now absent from Humphrey's oratory...
Everywhere last week Humphrey preached the politics of unity and consensus. Even Actress Ann-Margret failed to distract him from the theme during a Minneapolis celebration of Svenskar Dag (Day of the Swedes...
President Arthur da Costa e Silva wisely ordered jumpy military police to stay in their barracks during the march, thus preventing a recurrence of violence that had shaken the capital the week before when police clashed with marching students. He could hardly be untroubled by the demonstration's theme: "Students and people against dictatorship." As speakers who orated during the five-hour march made clear, Brazilians are deeply dissatisfied with progress under Costa, who promised to humanize the government when he took over as the army-picked candidate for President just over a year ago. Far from doing that...
...Latin liturgy, fish on Fridays, and unchallenged papal authority was what united delegates to the three-day meeting. An annual event sponsored by The Wanderer, a conservative Catholic weekly published in St. Paul, the forum drew a predominantly middleclass, middle-aged audience from 24 states and Canada. Its theme was "The Crisis of Belief-What Must Be Done...
...happily, himself. Even Hitchcock could not stretch so many individual scenes to the limit-and still give them the tensile strength of drop-forged steel. Nor has he the almost Proustian ability to recapture the past in a skein of memories and desires. In its avoidance of a major theme, The Bride Wore Black opts for the minor genre of suspense; but within those bounds it is very nearly a masterpiece...