Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POINT OF ORDER. The undoing of Senator Joe McCarthy is the theme of this Washington political drama, a striking documentary gleaned from TV coverage of the historic Army-McCarthy hearings...
...friend of the Kochs', and a maid in their employ. Painter Koch (pronounced coke), whose wife is Dora Zaslavsky, a teacher of concert pianists, is perhaps best known for his portraiture, but he has dealt sensitively and often with what he calls "the man-woman theme...
Running through his familiar book-Jumpin' at the Woodside, Walk, Don't Run and One O'clock Jump, his theme song-Basie built a cheerful and exciting feeling that seemed intended for an imagined dance floor...
...feelings, and do not cause an unwanted birth," I cautioned, however, that often middle-class people put off having children, or even compel abortions, for the most trivial or venal reasons, or mere convenience; they out themselves off from big experience. Dr. Blaine then chose as his principle theme the "tragedy" of the unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn't the University clinic provide contraceptives on request? Dr. Blaine evaded the question. I thought this evasion was contemptible, his tears were crocodile tears...
...Self as an Unmade Bed. The good half of Telemachus Clay is its brilliantly evocative staging, the indifferent half its overfamiliar theme-the quest for identity, based on a personal history that sounds the way an unmade bed looks. Playwright Lewis John Carlino (Cages) uses the name Telemachus to invoke the son of Odysseus who could not draw his father's great bow. Carlino's Telemachus is illegitimate, and he searches for the lost father and the fullness of manhood in his Spoon Riverish home town and later in Hollywood...