Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis could have been received either as a magnificent catharsis or as an offensive, over-extended tear-jerker. The audience chose the cathartic interpretation, even though the members of the string orchestra did not end their chords together, did not play their pizzicati together, and did not all tune to the standard of pitch habitual in civilized countries...
...WANTING SEED, by Anthony Burgess. Taking overpopulation as his theme, Novelist Burgess has measured its possible effects in a gruesome cautionary tale of the future wherein infanticide, cannibalism and government-planned extermination are imperative for survival of the human race...
...articles make some good points, but these points are usually obvious. The central theme is that the architect and planner must be modern Renaissance men in whom specialized training has not killed creativity and humanistic values...
Thus begins the Orson Welles version of Othello, with the joint funeral of the Moor and Desdemona, and the imaginative execution of Iago. The entire film is prefigured by this non-Shakespearean opening sequence: the sense of evil leading to tragic death, the theme of innocent beauty wronged, the symbolic imprisonment of man in a cage of passion...
...title story, Landolfi strikes a variation on a recurrent theme-man's need to destroy the objects of his love. For some obscure reason, Landolfi makes the classic Russian novelist Gogol the victim of his fantasy, perhaps because Gogol never married and was given to inventing imaginary affairs...