Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some scoff at Reagan's preachments and see him instead as a man who grew comfortable with the trappings of power. But his is a consistent theme: he speaks of being moved by a sense of duty rather than a sense of personal destiny. An old western movie sticks in his mind these days, Reagan says, an episode from a book by James Warner Bellah. The fort is under attack by Apaches; the colonel is dying; the young captain is standing by. The colonel-in the sort of role Reagan was always too fresh-faced to play-tells...
...fact is that New York's "scare tactics" had some effect. A nationwide publicity blitz orchestrated by New York's Democratic Governor Hugh Carey turned the country at least part way around on the issue. New Yorkers hammered away at the theme that if the city fell into default, others would soon accompany it. Yonkers, N.Y., teetered on the brink of default last week, only to be rescued at the last moment by a $25 million infusion of bank loans and state aid. Massachusetts, too, seemed headed for default until it managed to balance its $3 billion budget...
Human beings tend to assume their emotions are unique, that their pleasure and pain, their desires and fears are their own, separating them from all other people. Braudy tells her story to expose how common its theme is. "In the ordinariness of my private feelings, I hope other women can see their own. We are unsurprisingly not alone...
...recognized. The only serious miscasting was the Duke of Venice himself (David Garcia) who lacked the eloquence to make his magnanimity seem better than a sham. Graziano (Dan Riviera) left his role in a shambles, just a little too rasping and sinister to fit in with the overarching Shakespearean theme...
Alumni response reflected the admissions staff's theme, except that the alumni had a lot of questions for the officers who offered "no easy answers." No alumni questioned the reasons behind the recruitment drive. They seemed to accept the stated principle of "diversity" and were willing to do what Harvard and Radcliffe requested of them...