Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...power of position behind him emerges as victor. All the justness of the rebel family Percy's cause fails to overcome the king's opposing will; all the willfullness of the prodigal prince falls before the demands of his role as future king. At its most immediate level, the theme of the play Henry IV (part 1) is purely political: its art is a lesson in the practice of politics...
This sickness is increasingly mirrored in our culture, our philosophy, our attitude toward reality. It is no accident that so many ordinary people refer to the world as a 'madhouse' or that the theme of insanity has recently become a staple in literature, art, drama and film...Millions sense the pathology that pervades the air, but fail to understand its roots. These roots lie not in this or that political doctrine, still less in some mystical core of despair or isolation presumed to inhere in the 'human condition.' Nor do they lie in science, technology, or legitimate demands for social...
...same theme was sounded, several decibels higher, by Clay Smothers, a black Texas state representative: "I have enough civil rights to choke a hungry goat. I ask for public rights, Mr. Carter. I ask for victory over perverts of this country. I want a right to segregate my family from these misfits and perverts." A film was shown of Anita Bryant endorsing the pro-family movement, and Roger Redford of Arkansas explained that he had been a homosexual for 26 years until he was finally saved. "The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one who can deliver you from homosexuality...
...cosmic event at the Hollywood Bowl. On the program of "Music from Outer Space-a Star Wars Concert," was the Los Angeles Philharmonic, under Zubin Mehta, playing excerpts from Gustav Hoist's The Planets and Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra, better known as the theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey. For special effects, each instrument stand in the orchestra had been hooked up to a microphone controlled by sound engineers, and stabbing rays of laser light began crisscrossing the bowl. As the music changed in intensity, the laser beams changed in shape. Said an exuberant Zubin: "This...
...best? Nowhere was the theme of Candidate Jimmy Carter's autobiography more explicit than in his campaign promises on the administration of justice. Said he: "All federal judges and prosecutors should be appointed strictly on the basis of merit, without any consideration of political aspects or influence." But, lo and behold, merit has turned up, as it so often does in politics, apportioned according to party lines...