Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least six U.S. oil firms, including Exxon, Phillips Petroleum and Union Oil, have sent top-level delegations to Peking to discuss possible joint ventures. The theme of all the talks was the same: China would own any oil that was found, but the firms, in exchange for their technological expertise, would win the right to buy some oil at below OPEC prices...
...question. The country's wild coasts and mysterious outback provide smashing settings for directors to play with, and there is an exotic quality to Australian history that makes fascinating story material. But there is an undeniable air of provincialism about many Australian films and a choice of theme often too earnestly high-minded...
...theme of the conferences--conducted in life sciences, physical sciences and social sciences--was "the re-evaluation of existing values and the search for absolute values." In addition to the 65 scholars sitting on discussion panels, another 400 came to participate. They talked about achieving new values in society, redefining the word "progress," and developing eternal, absolute values...
...become Hollywood's self-appointed poet of the simple-minded. He speaks Brooklynese, and diamonds of wisdom in the form of dese, dems and dats stream out of Cosmo, Stallone's character in Paradise Alley ("Nature's a funny thing"). Directed and written by Stallone (he even bellows the theme song), Paradise Alley invites comparisons with Rocky...
Indeed, anarchism echoes a common theme of American thinkers, from Thomas Jefferson, who said that the best government is the one which governs least, to Henry David Thoreau, who expanded Jefferson's statement to express an ideal remarkably similar to that of the anarchists: "That government is best which governs not at all; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have...