Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ariv, calls for 30 new settlements and three urban centers in the western half of the occupied territory, cutting off the main Arab population centers from Israel. Speaking last week at the tenth anniversary of the settlement of Merom Golan on the Golan Heights, Sharon elaborated on that theme, declaring that Israel should settle 2 million Jews in territories extending from the Golan to Sharm el Sheikh at the southern tip of Sinai over the next 20 years...
...Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme that many are yearning to hear...
...involves vast archives." On the other hand, he dismisses-with a downward sweep of his arms-documentary biographers who limit themselves to a recitation of facts. Says he: "The only imagination allowed is over form, not facts, but that imagination can be considerable." Edel's ideal, and a theme of the course, is that biography "can become a work of art and literature...
Other designers have also produced variations on the Oriental theme. For the House of Lanvin-which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the creation of its Arpege perfume with a special showing of six dresses designed by Jeanne Lanvin in the 1920s-Jules-Francois Crahay paid homage to Asia with thick, quilted Tibetan coats, Mongolian jackets, and brilliantly colored folkloric ensembles. Even the names of the clothes were redolent of the enigmatic East -Petrograd, Katmandu, Marrakech and Salome...
Your cover story on summer describes theme parks as "fun and fantasy." We have lived in Southern California for twelve years and watched nearly everything encapsulate itself within a plastic bubble: not only giant "pop Xanadus" like Universal Studios, but also miniature golf courses, shopping centers and finally the American home. Vicarious living drives me up a tree, which, by the way, used to be a great source of fun and fantasy. So did tide-pools, hopscotch and lightning bugs...