Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week in San Francisco were not acts of saber rattling. His performance was part of the most carefully coordinated Administration attempt so far to articulate its defense strategy and its foreign policy goals. The Administration did seem, at least for now, to have harmonized its dissonant voices. The theme was clear: America is second to none in strength, but is nevertheless committed to long-term cooperation-with the Soviets wherever possible...
Brown, however, emphasized the need for a new SALT agreement, a theme that has run consistently through Administration speeches. "We are pursuing that goal with undiminished vigor," Brown stressed, even though the nation's "basic objectives of strategic deterrence, adequate stability and equivalence are overriding...
President Carter's audience listened attentively as he declared: "I am determined to have a SALT agreement with the Soviet Union without unwarranted delay." But he got his biggest hand when he turned to that other theme of the week: "We are determined to stay strong. We are not going to let the Soviet Union push us around. We are not going to be second...
...Subject Was Roses wastes the talents of three very able performers and the time of the audience. Gilroy's play fairly oozes with a trite plot, an insipid and oft-repeated theme, and a hackneyed conclusion. Whatever dramatic tension there is develops fleetingly in the second act, building to a swift and unsatisfying climax. The story is simple. It's 1946 in Da Bronx. Timmy Cleary has just returned from the Army, back to the not-so-peaceful home of his parents, John and Nettie. They are a middle--class, heavily Irish family, and like all good families...
...world cannot, after all, overshadow what is basically a mediocre play. Gilroy's work perhaps evokes some of the feeling of the times--the generation gap existed then, too, and the resentment and alienation of a failed marriage certainly didn't spring up in the last decade. This basic theme has been seen so many times before...a male child goes off to war, or what have you, and comes back as a man to his family abode. He soon realizes that he must move out on his own, that he has his own life to live. Nothing new there...