Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Tears, belly laughs and earthy morality are shrewdly blended by Director Vittorio De Sica, turning for his theme to the 20-year sex battle between a Neapolitan pastryman (Marcello Mastroianni) and a triumphant tart (Sophia Loren...
Though the triumph of mean-spirited men is clearly Buñuel's theme, he seems perversely unable or unwilling to settle accounts with the chambermaid, his pivotal character. She spurns her master, loves the murdered child, seduces the sadistic Joseph, promises to marry him, turns him over to the gendarmes with some show of regret, and finally marries the boor next door. Miraculously, Actress Moreau performs a contradictory role with an air of wry and knowing detachment, as if she were privy to soul-deep secrets that even the best directors can only guess...
These disturbing fables might have as their epigraph the theme of Goya's nightmarish etching cycle, the Caprichos: "The sleep of reason produces monsters." With merciless humor, Goya gave the forms of grotesque man-beasts to 18th century hypocrisies. Jakov Lind, writing cheerily of cannibals and cripples in Nazi Germany, imprisons the reader in sweaty dreams of guilt. The guilt is not merely German. Lind's force lies in his ability to suggest that the sleep of reason in this century produced not only monsters but a monstrous complicity-a pact signed and mutually witnessed by murderers, accessories...
...writers are Jewish, but this is not enough. Commentary is also "Jewish, but much more significantly, it is aimed at a sector of the liberal intelligentsia that considers itself highly aware and concerned, both politically and culturally. Mosaic certainly doesn't need an ideology. Nor should it pick a "theme" for each issue. But if it mush continue to publish infrequently and in a vacuum, the editors should consciously restrict themselves to broad set of concerns, about the College and the nation, which will interest a wide identifiable portion of a Harvard community...
Most significantly The Comedy was the only piece in which there was improvisation. The three clowns would dance together to a theme, and when Lewis took improvisational choruses on the piano, an individual dancer also improvised, with the other two comping a pattern behind. The audience applauded the improvisations the way they would the musical improvisations the way they would the musical improvisations of a chorus at a jazz concert...