Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Political Operator Jesse Unruh. He continues to defend big government, even though his aides warn him that such a position leaves him far out of step with the mood of the country. Last week at a Minneapolis luncheon for retired federal employees, the Senator pounded away at his theme. "Any politician who tells you we need less government is lying," he told them. "More efficient government, more responsive government, yes. But let's not junk everything we've built. That's cheap talk...
...metaphor, it suggests a revolution in the asylum in which the doctors and nurses are overthrown and the inmates reign over all. As a political metaphor it attempts to identify the lot of the oppressed with the lot of the incapable. Even Animal Farm deals with the same theme in a much more complex way. McMurphy's ethic of fuck and fight is hardly a more desirable way to run a society than the way of the nurses and the doctors (whatever the drawbacks of their system). Contemporary critics of psychoanalytic treatment of psychoses like Thomas Szasz have pointed...
...couple have a nightclub act they plan to take around to colleges. Bill sings The Look of Love, his theme song on Days, and Susan has a patter number called I Enjoy Doing the Soaps. They are mobbed when they appear in public. Fame is fun for Bill, who loves his female admirers...
...Bullins, black by birth and bold in theme, constructs a hot, sly, funny, sexy, drunken montage of black-white confrontation...
Jean Smith ingeniously returned the program to the theme of Christmas with a commentary on "what wise guys call kids' stuff." She suggested that it might be better to search for the light of God in the heavens, as "three wise guys" once did, than to trust narrowly in science, which gives people a reason to "fear the bursting of bombs." A unique arrangement of "We Three Kings," by Eric McKissach, a choir member from MIT, set the altos in counterpoint to the sopranos and the basses in contrast to the tenors. Five men stepped out of the group into...