Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cuba. Castro is another topic that will not go away. The Kennedy Administration was stung by charges that it was reacting ineffectively to the Russian military presence in Cuba. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating claimed that the Soviet's "mediumrange missile sites" remain. South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond declared that upwards of 100 ballistic missiles "with a 1,100-to 2,200-mile range" were stored in "underground facilities" in Cuba. Indiana's Republican Representative Donald C. Bruce said that he had information about some 40 "offensive missiles" still in Cuba...
...play is really a dialogue without a topic. The Zoo Story would be more successful as the straight comedy skit, which it seems to be at the opening, than the pseudo-tragedy it becomes...
...final section in this monumental 75 page issue contains three book reviews. The editors have taken great pains to secure the right people: Michael H. Bronnert, whose thesis topic is British policy towards Palestine in 1930, reviews The Balfour Declaration by Leonard Stein. Werner L. Gundersheimer, a Junior Fellow at work on a book in sixteenth century French history, reviews a study of Jewish-Gentile relations in medieval and modern times. And Michael Schwartz, a frequent contributor to these columns and editor of The Harvard Review, assesses Letting Go by Philip Roth. Only Schwartz, who has a much more difficult...
...series of talks by the Swiss musicologist deal with the General topic "Tragedy in the Art of Music." The lecture tonight will be on "Tragedy and Music drama." The lectures are free and open to the general public...
Following the example of Daedalus, the Review has devoted each issue to a single topic. In November it was "The Atlantic Community," this time it is "The American South." The editors have eschewed the common practice of running quasi-moralistic articles on the region's racial problems. They present, instead, a series of fairly well-balanced and objective discussions of Southern character, social structure, thought, and literature...