Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That somewhat self-indulgent note is the spirit of the season. The public themes that intrude themselves have none of the hard, brutal edge so evident when draft resisters were burning flags and Middle Americans slapped LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT stickers on their bumpers. Some observers have disconsolately described the decade as the "fragmented '70s." That may mean only that the period, unlike the '60s, lacks a single theme or story?no continuing drama for Americans like Viet Nam. Journalists addicted to a diet of disaster find the present moment disconcerting. One Washington journalist was even moved to complain...
...Omni Hotel complex, Burt's is designed like a Hollywood sound stage, with sets from Show Boat, the trolley from A Streetcar Named Desire and endless blowups of the owner's favorite actor. The sound is radio-oriented, with Sinatra's All the Way and the theme from Rocky alternating with hard rock. Clientele: unchic...
There are three themes in Fairbank's alumni reports, dating from 1939, after he had returned from China, to 1964, when he reflected on his time spent as a professor, "a calling which becomes steadily more so," and they are themes that recur with the persistence and regularity of Fairbank's vision of history. The first theme is his determination to master the next-to-impossible Japanese language. The second theme is "the country's need" for "a good course on Far Eastern history." Fairbank himself realized this goal when, sometime shortly before the second world war, he and Edwin...
...third theme, Fairbank's growing personal identification with the Chinese, enabled him to teach Chinese history the way he believes it ought to be taught, but it also provided some unexpected, and serious problems. In 1949, following his years working in the Office of War Information and as special assistant to the American ambassador in Chungking, Fairbank wrote in his alumni report, "During the last 20 years, while Chiang Kai-shek has been fighting Mao Tse-tung, I have been trying to read Chinese and by coordinating my activities with theirs in this way, I now find myself...
...escaping from the explosion of a military coup in Latin America, and dies shortly thereafter. That, and the worsening election day prospects, take their toll on Evans. His enthusiasm flags, Shadwell's standing in the polls drops as his opponent launches a vicious attack based mainly on an antibusing theme, and not even a desperate series of rallies in the last week can save Tom Jeff...