Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strongest weapons. Flying on to Michigan, where he conferred with Governor George Romney (but came away without an endorsement), Nixon began a nine-day swing through the Middle West and the Mountain States. En route he hammered away at the message that shapes up as his major campaign theme: "A divided Democratic Party cannot unite a divided country; a united Republican Party...
...Updike may have found in the hedonistic couples of Tarbox the explosive expression of his theme that his work has always lacked...
Couples is flawed by overwriting and undercharacterization, but the charge of irrelevance will no longer stand up. Updike has taken a particularly American theme, and a highly topical one. One character sums it up thus: "We're a subversive cell, like in the catacombs. Only they were trying to break out of hedonism. We're trying to break back into it. It's not easy...
...major source of the company's cool, exact style is the choreography of its Dutch cofounder, Hans van Manen, whose Essay in Silence shows the theater's corps at its reserved but authoritative best. The theme of the dance is man's lack of communication with man. Without a note from the orchestra, the dancers swoop, leap, writhe and double up in inarticulate agony. But the dance is full of sound-the staccato rhythms of the dancers' feet, their sudden grunts and cries of desperation and, as the pace increases, the amplified...
Although the Quincy photographers allude lightly to the "Brandeis Exhibit," they would have done better to explain what they share with that exhibit--the theme, the American social landscape and the technique, 35mm camera usually with a 35mm lens. The point is to familiarize the timid viewer with what you are doing and to suggest what to look...