Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's mission to the world" is the misleadingly bland theme of the Toronto Congress. Evangelism-on the religious, political and cultural frontiers of the world-will not be the delegates' only concern; they will be deeply involved with inner searching and selfcriticism. "This is a desperately difficult time for Anglicanism," warns the Rev. Roger Lloyd, a canon of Winchester Cathedral. "The historic definition of Anglicanism needs renewing...
James Darren, as the exquisitely manicured, coiffed, plucked and dentured Moondoggie, is on his third time out with the hyperthyroid little heroine (previous Gidgets: Sandra Dee, Deborah Walley). He seems doomed to traipse after gidgets until the apotheosis of the theme, which will doubtless be called Gidget Meets Tammy...
...colors of linoleum, the awful caprice of electrical fixtures, and the ebb and flow of cruel plumbing. He sniffs the eternal odors of poverty, sin and despair on stairway, landing and daybed. The flaking walls about his creatures are a barometer of the damp weather in the soul. His theme is the pursuit of grace among the abounding roaches...
...Negro; but as O'Neill himself wrote: "The Negro question...it must be remembered, is not an issue in the play." All God's Chillun is about two people consumed by love for each other who at the same time hate each other for their inherent differences. The theme is basically the "love-hatred" relationship described by Strindberg, who greatly influenced O'Neill at the time he was writing the play. The characters are O'Neill's parents: a genteel, sheltered girl and a worldly, yet uncouth Irish actor...
Thus one is unavoidably engaged by the specifically "Negro" aspects of the story: Jim's sister's speeches about "fighting for our race;" Jim's inner torment over being the only Negro in his law school class; Ella's shame at having married a Negro. O'Neill's basic theme, the passionately destructive relationship between Ella and Jim, cannot help but be obscured by the incidental racial questions...