Word: themes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opportunity to open people's hearts to these questions, and be reflective, in some ways," said Assistant Professor of Literature Michael C. Blumenthal, who read "Song of Myself," a poem by Walt Whitman that expresses a theme of universal brotherhood...
...coach. It is not really true, as has often been said, that Greenberg told Louis what to paint, though he probably had more influence over this lonely, gifted and insecure man than any American critic has had over any other artist. Nevertheless, Louis' instinct for light as the primal theme of painting, and his desire to find a refined hedonistic syntax for it, winds back beyond Greenberg to the fact that he spent his time as a student in Washington looking at the Bonnards in the Phillips Collection rather than the Picassos at the Museum of Modern...
DURING THE EARLY years of the Second World War, Vladimir Nabokov wrote a short story called "The Enchanter," describing a cynical jeweler's predatory lust for an enticing violet-eyed girl of 12. Dissatisfied with the piece, Nabokov abandoned the manuscript. But he continued to ponder over the theme, finally returing to it 10 years later when he wrote Lolita...
Lazarus was quite right in pointing to the media's "Model Minority" theme as a source of misconception about Asian Americans. Yet he too fell victim to those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
Singing Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and the Mets theme song, "Meet the Mets," the group competed with a bevy of Sox fans who chanted "Oil Can, Oil Can," is the nickname of Dennis Boyd--the scheduled Sox starter in the seventh and deciding World Series game...