Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louise Day Hicks, Boston school committee member and long a fierce enemy of enforced school integration, with at least a slight popular lead on the early form sheet. A strong campaigner who topped the ticket in the last two citywide elections, Mrs. Hicks wows the voters with her theme song-Every Little Breeze Seems to Whisper Louise-and her parochial slogan: "Boston for Bostonians." In a city of strong ethnic divisions and relatively low levels of income (45% of the registered voters earn under $6,000) and education (38% never finished high school), she appeals to those who distrust academics...
...Like Brecht, Ustinov appears to believe that war is a continuation of the class struggle. The mighty spill the blood of the lowly in a kind of cruel game, a black farce. It is a question whether Ustinov's lines supply comic relief or comic sabotage to his theme. Says a general: "I sense a trap." Replies an archbishop: "That's unusual for a military...
...Galicia, then part of Austria, the son of a police commissioner. His early books were histories, which critics found competent enough. But when he turned to fiction, he was a Jekyll gone Hyde. His short stories and most of his 90 novels all dealt with depravity. The theme: girl beats boy. Venus in Furs, his most widely read book, was typical of the rest, though hardly as explicit as some of today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover at her feet. Domestic Treaty...
Most film makers have used Expo's theme-"Man and His World"-to sanctify a marriage of convenience between formidable technique and flaccid story. But at the Labyrinth pavilion the theme is handled by Canada's prize winning National Film Board with solemnity and skill. In the vaulted chambers of a windowless, five-story building, the viewer follows a restatement of the Greek myth of Theseus, who entered a labyrinth on the island of Crete to slay the monstrous Minotaur. In the pavilion the labyrinth is evoked by a series of eerie corridors and chambers, including one auditorium...
...from being simply a detailed and objective chronicle of the assassination," Epstein writes, Death of Lancer was "a mythopoeic melodrama organized around the theme of the struggle for power between two men, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson . . . [But] the characters bearing these names in Death of Lancer have at best a questionable relation to the real persons themselves and at worst no relation at all outside the heated imagination of the author...