Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bravo for the "Keep It Simple" article on autos [noting consumer rebellion against "ostentatious ornamentation"-April 21]. We have formed a club. The theme: "I-will-never-buy-a-car-even-one -inch-longer-than-my-present-one." Mine is a 1955 Chrysler...
...leaflet-spread slurs at the Vice President, e.g., "Nixon Dog!", the party-line taunts, e.g., "Insolent representative of monopolistic trusts," "What about the Negroes in the South?", and the phony causes, e.g., "Free Puerto Rico," *were everywhere the same. The aim: implanting throughout the world the propaganda theme of hatred for the U.S. in its own backyard...
Women and cannibals eat Ihe same food -men. That, at any rate, is the acidulous theme of French Novelist Herve Bazin's A Tribe of Women. The four women who dwell at La Fouve, a windswept, French provincial Manderley, are sisters to the witches in Macbeth. They bubble and bubble, toil and make trouble...
...theme is most explicitly stated in The Last Mohican, a wry and witty fable about a serious-minded student named Fidelman who goes to Italy to write a monograph on Giotto. He scarcely steps from his train in Rome before his personal Old Man of the Sea latches onto him: one Shimon Susskind, a slat-thin Jewish refugee from, of all places, Israel ("The desert air makes me constipated...
...Women he all but abandons sensuality for sorrow, all but ignores the battle of the sexes for the real war that raged across his native Italy in the '405. The result is a novel curiously dated as to period and theme, but strikingly different as a work from Moravia...