Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevelson shows are always built around a single theme-last year it was The Forest, the year before Royal Voyage, this year Moon. "I never know my next move," she says, "I just let it happen. When I let my inner vision guide my hands, there are no errors." Said Paris Abstractionist Pierre Soulages of her current show: "It is not only sculpture, it is a whole world." And certainly Louise Nevelson's world is in no way trite or ordinary...
...Beatitudes is a crossing of the t's and a dotting of the i's,'' he said afterwards. "I prefer understatement." Of the show itself: "The book has a lighter tone. On TV there was too much concentration of misery. They caught the theme but not the tone of the book." Wilder's interpretation of the theme: "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value...
...history, it has its piquant side-plenty of local color, a working-class lingo, accents faithfully rendered by an all-Australian cast. As altogether honest work, it treats understandingly of believable people and of an odd patterning of human lives. But neither a fresh background nor a sound theme can give the play sufficient dramatic pressure or verbal leverage; if there are no false notes to the writing, there are no resonances or overtones either...
...Francis King (248 pp.; Pantheon; $3.50), is based on the fact that the human comedy is seldom humane. British Novelist Francis King, 34, pitches his inhumane comedy on the rise and fall of a young Greek spiv of the postwar dead-beat generation. The book's larger theme is the old motif of American innocence v. European corruption. Reflected in the golden eye of a Mediterranean setting, what is sordid and depraved becomes corrosively hilarious. Spiro Polymerides is a sun-baked peasant Apollo. He is taken up by an arty, effeminate, high-minded official of a U.S. relief mission...
...Problem of Evil" will be the theme of the third annual Ministers' Institute, to be held Thursday at Andover Hall of the Divinity School. Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, will deliver the annual Ingersoll Lecture, entitled "Greek Ideal of Immortality," in the morning...