Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasure do they find any meaning in life, and they blame modern society for their emptiness. On cheaply printed paper, they pour forth a torrent of starkly explicit erotic writings, most of them based on their own exploits ("In the Taj Mahal with My Sister") or on dreams. "My theme is me," says Hungry Poet Shaileshwar Ghose, 26, a schoolteacher. "I say what I feel. I feel frustration, hunger for love, hunger for food...
...fall's best new television series until after the election. Profiles in Courage, premiered last week and based on President Kennedy's book, proves to be a bracing antidote to the plethora of two-dimensional teledramas in which tinsel laurels automatically crown the good guy. Adult in theme, effectively written and excellently acted, the series will for 26 weeks focus on characters from American history, many obscure but united by a common bond-their willingness to risk and if necessary sacrifice their careers for their ideals. Happily scheduled for early Sunday evening, a prime kiddy viewing hour...
...British Author John Fowles's brilliant first novel, The Collector, one of the most cunning evil characters of modern fiction utterly vanquishes the good. As if to make amends, Fowles has now written a philosophical work whose theme is the aristos, Greek for the excellent in life. Good novelists seldom make good philosophers, or vice versa; but Fowles is obviously at home in both fields...
BRITTEN: YOUNG PERSON'S GUIDE TO THE ORCHESTRA (London) usually has a commentator to introduce the woodwinds, brass, strings and percussion. This performance without words, conducted by the composer, shows that the piece, with its inventive variations on a theme of Purcell's, is more than just a stunt. The virtuosos of the London Symphony Orchestra make the most of their uninterrupted chance to show off. For those who want a spoken explanation, there is also a new version by the Boston Pops, with Hugh Downs emceeing the instruments (RCA Victor...
...life through school and Oxford, ending on the eve of his first littrary success. He insists that from early Childhood he sensed "another age which 1 instinctively, even then, recognized as Superior to my own." This nostalgia for "the Mid-Victorian ethos" later came to be a fixed theme of Waugh's books-and of his religion, his Tory politics, his testy and forceful prejudices...