Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...
Hornet in His Quiver. The real joker is that Batman has already hit the top ten in the ratings, and the spin-offs have begun. Discothèques have kicked off a new dance, the "batusi," and five recordings of the Batman theme song have already been rushed to stores, along with a single called Batman and Robin. There is even every expectation that grown men will be showing up at Andy Warhol's next party dressed like the Batman...
...turned out 81 relentlessly wholesome books (10,000,000 copies sold), plus reportage and innumerable short stories for women's magazines; following a stroke; in San Francisco. "I write," she once said, "for people with simple needs, like myself," and her books played endless variations on a single theme: "Get a girl in all kinds of trouble and then...
...trouble is, Male Companion's script might well have been adapted from the same book. Indolence as a theme leads easily to a certain aimlessness of execution, just as nothingness leads to naught. Director De Broca's spontaneity and Cassel's utter abandon with a throng of acquiescent beauties meet every challenge except the vital one of squeezing triumph out of a trifle...
Despite what you may have heard from your friends at the Law School, law can be interesting--especially if it is being discussed by non-lawyers. Although the articles in this issue of the Harvard Review have no unifying theme except "Law," they do as a group support the contention that the people who write best about the law are those outside the profession...