Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theme of Hiroshima is the insufficiency of memory. Memory is treacherous; it cannot, or will not, retain what is should. Neither can it be forced or faked. But, suggests Resnais, there is hope after all, for if worse comes to worst, memory can always be ignored...
Incident at Vichy, Miller's most recent work, is the giveaway, for it dwells entirely on the only generalizable theme in After the Fall, the guilt of genocide. And even Vichy is too consciously a "message play," resting too much on ideas and not enough on people. Miller's people cannot, unlike J. Alfred Prufrock or Moses E. Herzog, asks the big questions and yet stay in the skins their creators gave them. When Charley, in Death of a Salesman, tries to make Willy Loman the embodiment of the tragic salesman, he sounds phony. And when Quentin speaks...
...DESERT. Color infuses plot and theme and provides the principal fascination of Director Michelangelo Antonioni's drama about a neurotic young wife (Monica Vitti) who searches her soul against a dispiriting industrial cityscape...
Unlike last year, when students used "Save the Sycamores" as their slogan, last night's demonstration had no enduring theme. In the beginning, the marchers chanted, "Raise Cope' Pay," but this died out midway through the night...
...sprinkled with snatches of religious, patriotic and folk tunes popular at the turn of the century. But once shredded by Ives, run through a wringer of dissonance and woven into his complex fabric of rhythms, they were not easily recognized. In the first movement, for example, the doom-laden theme in the basses sounded against a background of Nearer, My God, to Thee, softly played by a chamber ensemble isolated at the rear of the orchestra. Then the violins joined in with The Sweet Bye and Bye, intertwined with clashes of brass and drums and another hymn sung...