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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another company offered a musical synthesizer that not only played the "Masterpiece Theater" theme or "Stars and Stripes Forever" over its loudspeakers, but also projected the score to the music it was playing onto a three-foot video screen...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Robots, Computers Gather Downtown | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...always," says Kriss, "the toughest question was what to leave out. Each theme introduced in the book is intricately threaded and developed throughout the whole. " In refining and condensing the excerpts, Kriss readily accepted some constructive suggestions from an authoritative source who proved to be a fast, able and understanding editorial aide: Henry Kissinger himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 1, 1979 | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...Soviet summit never developed the uniform texture of the one in Peking; it was more random and jagged. The discussions between Nixon and the Soviet leaders lacked a central theme. On the whole what emerged were formal expressions of standard positions not significantly different from the written exchanges that had gone back and forth through the Channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE SOVIET RIDDLE | 10/1/1979 | See Source »

...invitation extended to Pope John Paul II to speak on the Dudleian Foundation would have, if accepted, provided a remarkable bit of counterpoint to Mr. Justice Dudley's theme. It would not, however, have been the first time that a Roman Prelate spoke upon that foundation. That distinction belongs to Bishop John J. Keane, Rector of the then-newly established Catholic University, who came at the invitation of Harvard President Charles William Eliot on October 23, 1890 to deliver the Dudleian Lecture on Revealed Religion in Appleton Chapel. His Catholic colleagues likened his precedent-shattering appearance in Harvard Yard...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Puritan Boston Prepares For the Polish Pontiff | 9/27/1979 | See Source »

...MARRIAGE of artist and theme with great potential for blasphemous offspring--Monty Python's Flying Circus dive-bombs the New Testament. Sort of like Jesus Christ Superstar to the tune of "I'm a Lumberjack...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: Monty Python's Flying Surplice | 9/25/1979 | See Source »

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