Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Individual speakers will examine the drug industry, computer technology, and social science research to develop the theme and offer some remedies...
...terrifying epiphanies about the death of civilization and the end of art, a few brave souls have had the nerve to put together another issue of the Advocate. That would be charming, almost quaint, if this latest effort were not so good. Romantic heroes they remain. And what better theme for them than their own romance? For, by design or not, almost every piece in the Advocate is really about the young artist confronting a bewildering "modernity" and trying to define it so that it does not exclude...
...burden of "confessional" poetry. Paired with Miss Rizza's welcome boredom ("you wish she would talk of something else") is Alan Williamson's careful analysis of Lowell's Notebook 1967-8. Like so many other contemporary writers Lowell has moved toward a merging of private and public theme that hinges on a more detached view of the self and more self-involved view of events...
...rally centered on the theme of "hope and horror," contrasting slides of native-run hospitals and relief camps with pictures of starving lbo children...
...Grazia, wants to let all the characters come across as they are, not as Hamlet interprets them in his own head. This is fortunate because de Grazia also plays Hamlet, which might have otherwise led to a one-dimensional ego-trip production. There is thus no undirectional theme with all the characters a collective midwife to some zinging, overwhelming closing statement. Rather, the portrayals are loose and disjunct, and that serves finally to heighten the senselessness of the tragedy. The tragic climax is not the clear and unavoidable result of certain obvious flaws in the characters. In this sense...