Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blending spiritual and temporal concerns, the 1976 theme was "Hungers of the Human Family." Each day's meetings emphasized a different hunger -for God, Jesus, truth, understanding, freedom and justice, the spirit, peace...
...before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases of such longtime favorites as Bambi, Pinocchio and Fantasia, and from sales of record albums, Mickey Mouse wristwatches and everything else bearing the Disney stamp...
...Federation required contestants to write on the theme "The Future of Capitalism: the Market Economy vs. the Planned Economy in America's Third Century...
...each intermission, the Wagnerians strolling about the Festspielhaus grounds are summoned by musicians who stand on a balcony and play a theme from the upcoming action. The crowd clambers across the rough floor boards, seats itself on the hard, wood seats-decreed by Wagner for the sake of sound. Physically nothing has changed in the Festspielhaus auditorium since Wagner designed it, and its acoustics are among the best in the world. The old man would probably relish the scene in 1976: the full house, the well-dressed crowd, the impresarios gathered from several continents. As for Chéreau...
America's sense of isolation and distance, and the effort needed to overcome it, is the theme of two delightful shows that opened last week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts. One, "Paintings by New England Provincial Artists, 1775-1800," organized by Art Historian Nina Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters...