Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reading about the Mullens made me glad that I engaged in some of the marches and some of the antiwar protests of the late '60s," a high-school English teacher from Chicago wrote Bryan. And, she added, in a theme echoed by others, "I'm ashamed that I didn't do more." A New York man wrote that Bryan's articles had "penetrated the confusion and shame which prevented me from thinking about the Indochina War." A woman from Pennsylvania wanted to write the Mullens; she explained that she had lost her job in part because she wore a black...
...emerging theme in the election-year debate over U.S. foreign policy is that a "new pessimism" is eroding American strength and will. That idea is analyzed in the current issue of the quarterly Foreign Policy by two men who might well play important foreign policy roles if Jimmy Carter wins the Democratic nomination...
...Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad, sweeping melody that is by now his theme, The Messiah Will Come Again...
...enlarge the working definition of "entertainment." This compendium, casual and diverting, still contains a lot of song-and-dance footage. There are, however, frequent excursions into light comedy and heavy melodrama. "It's all entertainment," the narration implies. That is a fair enough generalization, but hardly a unifying theme. There is probably no coherent way to bring together Fred Astaire and Lassie, Judy Garland and Johnny Weissmuller. The strain shows...
...were caught in the Red-baiting of the '30s. He was from a rich family and she was a moneymaker. As things were then, a lot of the best people were radical, but they got lost on the way because of her moneymaking. It's a great theme. People getting torn apart by this political whirlpool, dismembered by the imperatives of American life-get rich, have everything...