Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Water is the theme of the landscaping. Inside the pavilions as well as outside--there are artificial pools, fountains, and waterfalls. Nevertheless, it is virtually impossible to find a drinking fountain...
...They [the chapters] proceed from my feeling that the greatest novels (as compared with the greatest poems or plays) seldom receive the full technical analysis they deserve, and the full, not casual rendering of theme. My aim is to talk as rigorously and fully as some critics talk about poems...
Emerson picked up the "veil of silence" theme, and criticized Nixon's statements regarding State Department release of unfavorable mail figures, as "a return to McCarthyism...
...Martin of Tours, a 4th century Roman soldier. Something of a Samaritan himself, St. Martin, in the depths of the drastic, winter of 332 A.D. in France, cut his cloak in two with his sword and gave half to a freezing beggar. To give full scope to his heroic theme, Milles carved a 14-ft.-high figure of St. Martin on horseback splitting his cloak, and the beggar, hand upraised, at the base of the pedestal...
Side by side with Dr. Eichner's misadventures runs the dewy romance of Nurse Babs Mintner and her college-boy lover. This minor theme leads to the funniest scene of an often funny novel: the seduction of featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...