Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edmund Blunden, a poet, elaborates a Syndrome theme when he recalls the endlessness of war in that attack on the Somme. "By the end of the day," he writes, "both sides had seen, in a sad scrawl of broken earth and murdered men, the answer to the question. No road. No thoroughfare. Neither race had won, nor could win, the War. The war had won, and would go on winning." And after carefully building up evidence for the recurrence of this theme since that time, Fussell quotes this headline from The New York Times: "U.S. Aides in Vietnam/See an Unending...
...Lampoon seceded yesterday from the United States, and the act will serve as the theme for the celebration...
Here Dylan introduces the theme of the alienated lover in its most extreme form. Sensing that his lover is not on a plane where he can communicate directly to her, he can only describe her attributes. In the next two verses he elaborates a male and a female principle; he characterizes her father as overseeing "his kingdom, so no stranger does intrude," and one is reminded of one of the few pictures that exist of Sara Dylan, being sheparded through a crowd of photographers and reporters by her husband at the Isle of Wight...
Shaping the theme of his budget and his campaign, Ford relied on his instincts-and the findings of pollsters. Both told him the nation was fed up with what he called "bigger and bigger Government." Declared the President: "The American people know that promises that the Federal Government will do more for them every year have not been kept. I make no such promises. I offer no such illusion." Ford urged the nation to practice the "common sense" once preached by Tom Paine, and called for a return to the old-fashioned virtues of "restraint" and "self-reliance." The President...
Nonetheless, the policymakers all think it necessary to keep a tight rein on the recovery, primarily by holding down federal spending, as Ford recommended in last week's budget. Thus a cautious theme runs throughout the CEA report: high unemployment must be endured in the short run to achieve higher employment in the long run. As Ford writes in a message preceding the report: "Overly rapid growth could lead to a renewed increase in inflation that would ultimately be self-defeating...