Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this Don Juan is not a sexual athlete but a literary one, an aspiring philosopher of womanizing. As the reader reads on, he discovers that Claude Mauriac's new novel is hardly a novel at all, but more an anthology of aphorisms about the Frenchmen's favorite topic...
...course we're always waiting for a new revelation," remarked Denis Donoghue, professor of English at Trinity College, Dublin, at a colloquium on "Modern Poetry Today" Tuesday night. In the absence of such a vision, he and his two fellow panelists discussed their topic informally without reaching any substantial agreement...
...they are really like. But eventually their personalities should emerge from beneath the pretense. The two actors in Three A.M. could not do that, however, for they never seem to have decided what their characters' personalities were. Certainly Foley does not give the much help. The play moves from topic to topic, from joke to joke. No pattern really emerges. The only development necessary is that the girl get gradually drunk enough to pass out immediately after announcing she will sleep with the boy. But Guzzetti might have had Gebow and Miss Wilson try something, if only to give...
...also must consider whether there will be a need for COIN-type aircraft five years from now. On the other hand, there is a rising clamor in the Congress for new and decisive action against the Viet Cong. Thus, while COIN at the moment is a hot topic mainly in the aircraft industry and in the military services, it could easily blow up into a big national debate...
...affairs as well as a scholar, Langer served as Chief of the Research and Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. The World War II era was the topic of two Langer works, The Challenge to isolation, 1937-1940, and The Undeclared...