Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...theme of your meeting is 'til victory is won.' I know it has nothing to do with me, it has to do with something much more important that Ed Brooke or any individual. I subscribe to that theme. I've dedicated most of my life to that and all of you here have done the same. And I'm so honored when I look and see," Brooke eyes the cover for the evening's program, "William E. DuBois, I guess that's Frederick Douglass--my eyes are getting older now--I guess that other picture...
...original house was built in 1824 by an offshoot of the Lovell family of Massachusetts, taken over later for a century by the Blairs, who came out of Kentucky to join Jackson and waxed wealthy from publishing and real estate. But always the national purpose was a central theme in the family life. Indeed, it was Francis Preston Blair Sr. who twice went off for Lincoln on secret missions to Jefferson Davis to urge peace in the Civil War. That spirit still stalks those halls...
Wierzynski was especially moved when he read some unpublished poems of John Paul II, who had known Wierzynski's father and admired his poetry. The theme of the Pope's verse, Wierzynski reports, "is Poland, and it sings of his powerful attachment to this country and its people. It's the kind of attachment that has enabled this unhappy country to survive devastating wars and centuries of occupation...
Champions are what many of the grown fighters at Bogart's want to be, if only for a few glorious minutes. Between bouts, the theme from Rocky comes up on the sound system. But there seem to be as many Martys fighting-folks at loose ends just looking for something to do. Randy McDoniels, 32, an unemployed construction worker, and Steve Slaymaker, 31, a heavy-equipment operator, are fighting, according to Randy, "just for the good times." Others stepping onto the scale express similar reasons: "Hell, my friends are doing it," or "We're out for some laughs...
Wojtyla has written four books and more than 500 essays and articles. A Polish publisher is planning to put out soon a thin volume of his poetry on the theme of the fatherland. When Wojtyla visited Harvard University in 1976 to deliver an abstruse philosophical lecture, Summer School Director Thomas Crooks came away considering him "one of the most impressive men I've met in my life. He had an absolutely radiant personality...