Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summary. The narrative is augmented by endlessly suggestive details: the costumes (varying from the pure white of the girl who offers order to the pure black of the magnificent monster-woman Saraghina, who gave the young Guido his first sexual experience), the music (an orchestra blares out Wotan's theme from the Twilight of the Gods while the camera focuses on the faces of the old men and women who crowd the health resort), the juxtaposition of lines, and, most of all, the endless convolutions of the plot. The film Guido is directing is similar in many respects...
POINT OF ORDER. The undoing of Senator Joe McCarthy is the theme of this striking documentary gleaned from TV coverage of the historic Army-McCarthy hearings...
...discovery are customarily accompanied by a change of outer scenery. If, for instance, the author's aim is to reveal inner darkness, his characters traditionally head for Africa (Conrad, Gide, Paul Bowles). If, on the other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...
...Aiken's mind, the trip stood as a symbol of both the expanding American frontier and the expanding American consciousness, moving from innocence to experience (a theme that preoccupied him in his fictionalized autobiography, Ushant). But story and symbol never meet, with the result that cascades of imagery and torrents of metaphor are expended on events that have all the inherent drama of a railroad timetable. The train pulls into the town of Galion, Ohio, and Blomberg is jolted awake: "Galion! They had come to Galion; this point in chaos and eternal night was Galion." To Blomberg, the trip...
This Advocate, then, should rest neatly by bedside or commode, and be consumed in modest chunks over a period of several weeks. As no pat theme lends coherence to the fall issue, nothing will be lost in the way of continuity. And, gourmandizing thus bit by bit, you will be able to winnow the tough from the tender, and wield the red pencil of your mind more boldly than the editors have done. After this belated moulting, the fall Advocate will be more fair than fowl...