Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fiscal responsibility--the theme of Cambridge City government in the next few years, even if the Council can at some time agree on the choice of a new city manager. Few councillors, especially those on the majority five, will want to risk being vulnerable targets for the charges of free-spending which they feel swung the election last time...
...those who were listening, listening to the war get worse and to the repression of demonstrations get more brutal, the time for the choice was zooming in very fast. Sitting on the sidelines, being cool-liberal and dispassionate was becoming irrelevant. The theme that the Washington demonstrators harped on was: if you're not with us, you're against...
...When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus all their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exercise stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
Financial constraints probably make it impossible to provide such experienced teachers and small sections for all freshmen, but the principle of centering writing courses on a genre or a general theme could be adapted to the whole course. If students could select the type of course they wanted, much of the present psychological dissatisfaction would be eliminated...
...aisle of Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall on a stretcher borne by two men in white coats. His compositions include the "Unbegun" Symphony, which has only a third and fourth movement. As a concert commentator, he is the leading exponent of the sportscaster style ("The brasses are taking the theme and running ahead! Folks, this piece is definitely going to go into over time!"). His great contribution to musicology is the "discovery" of P.D.Q. Bach (1807-1742)?, the last and oddest of Johann Sebastian's 20-odd offspring. As countless amused concertgoers and record buyers know, P.D.Q...