Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE, two one-acters by Peter Shaffer, play Getting to Know You, first to the sketchy theme of boyish bunglings in a scrubby flat, second to the more artful airs of a detective shadowing a seemingly errant wife...
...Columinst Max 'When Lerner in the York Post. " 'When Kennedy ran in 1960,' he said, 'everyone was discussing Kennedy as a Catholic: there was a big to-do about it. Why doesn't anyone today write about Goldwater as a Jew? Is the Jewish theme more taboo in politics than the Catholic theme?' " To Lerner, who is a Jew himself, the question insisted upon an answer, and he was quick to supply...
...Another theme that entered his life in this period was an interest in the affairs of colonial Africa. In 1900 he attended a conference on African issues in London. Similar gatherings in 1911, 1919, 1921, and later, were held in Europe and at least partly organized by DuBois. These meetings, held in the capitals of Europe, began to include African leaders and were part of the beginnings of the modern emancipation of Africa. A 1945 pan-African conference in England enabled DuBois to meet such men as Nkrumah and Kenyatta. This American contact with Africa not only aided the struggling...
...play is a prolonged joke on the theme of seduction. Tolen, a full-time girl chaser who "just isn't satisfied unless he has had it for five hours a day," shares a house with Colin, a bumbling schoolteacher who is desperate for sexual experience, and Tom, an imp whose chief delight lies in tormenting the other...
...notes being written, reams of small talk, and provocative clues to heaven-knows-what) instead of reality's elusive core. "When you get right down to it, it's a trite story," remarks Actress Seyrig to her long-lost vis-à-vis. A master without a theme, Resnais has claimed that his films are made to be felt, not understood. But Muriel, with characters who are basically tiresome folk, is more apt to pique curiosity than to stir the senses or touch the heart...