Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
Author Giono's theme is as complicated as it is fascinating. Most of the characters think they are acting like real people, but they are in fact propelled by theatrical impulses, and are acting out a glamorous melodrama entitled "Liberty"; as a result, it is often impossible for the reader to know what is actually happening. Nor does Author Giono try much to clarify this Pirandelloesque confusion, which he obviously regards as a principal factor of human life-fantastic but unresolvable. Impossible to plumb in small details, The Straw Man, with its superbly painted backdrops of Italian cities...
...musical interpretation of Steichen's pictorial essay begins and ends with a recitation of the theme: "All man is but one man." With a rapid-moving and never-tiring tempo, the show moves through the various phases of man's life: work and praise, sorrow, prayer, complaint, and love. Between each number the theatre is blackened and the performers take their positions for the next of the songs--some interpreted as still pictures, others with lively action. In the "complaint category," for example, "Talking Union" and "Union Maid" are done with audience participation, including community singing on the chorus...
...stand at the great Exposition Hall at Omaha strode a spare, erect man with snapping blue eyes and firm jaw, his quick step springing to the band's blare of Marching Through Georgia. The date was June 1893. The speaker, in the double identity that was the theme of his life, was 1) Thomas Ewing Sherman, eldest surviving son of General William Tecumseh Sherman, who had died but two years befofe; 2) the Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman, a militant Jesuit, known to the lecture circuit as "Father Tom." The Jesuit began to speak in bullet sentences...
...movie's concentration on the tragedy of it all, its insistence on showing Julien to be a maligned martyr, takes all the sharpness from the story; the movie-made transformation of Julien into a hero of almost homeric proportion destroys Stendahl's original theme. Even Danielle Darrieux's fine acting cannot detract from the fact that The Red and The Black is not meant to be a colossal soap opera...