Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bunuel's theme is the seductive power of Evil. Earlier, when Josef and a Fascist friend were composing anti-Semitic tracts, a witless scullery-maid unwittingly contributed a phrase, by voicing her opinion on a point of rhetoric. We are never sure how close to moral seduction our protagonist Celestine is, as she struggles in the currents of circumstance. We too feel seduced when Bunuel's devious camera involves our gaze in the seemingly innocuous--a butterfly on a window--then pulls back to show us our complicity in senseless violence--as the senile grandfather blasts it with a shotgun...
Rand E. Rosenblatt '66 of Adams Honse and Rome, Italy, won the $600 first prize for his essay, "The British Foreign Office in the 1930's: Three Events and a Theme...
After five hours of uninterrupted whoopdedoo, Bandleader Lee Evans pointedly played The Party's Over-over and over. After five reruns he switched to Hello, Dolly!, Lyndon's campaign theme. That was a mistake. Johnson jumped up for a quick twirl around the floor-and then seven more. What could Evans do? In desperation, the band plunged Deep in the Heart of Texas. The crowd clapped for more. Finally, at 3 a.m., Evans struck up Good Night Ladies, and with its dying strains Lyndon Johnson reluctantly left the floor. Next year he can expect King Frederik...
...theme of the anniversary gathering was "Forever Beginning"-a reminder that there is no room for complacency or conservatism in the richest and second-largest (10,331,574 members*) U.S. Protestant church. Speaker after speaker urged the Methodist delegates to gear up for the new challenges facing the church-ecumenism, equality, urban changes...
...jacket-blurbed by its proud publishers as "a tasteless affront." They also call it "a religious epic of incomparable beauty," but they were right the first time. At its best, Losers is a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea. The flipster fictioneers have treated this theme so often that the method has become standardized: spit in their shoe, serve it to you. Novelist Cohen is all spit and no polish. His anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member of Parliament, who himself slept with the writer...