Word: themes
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...Punch and Judy shows. The original comedia were performed by troupes of players --who traveled from town to town with their entertainment. Their plays were never the same, however. What were constant were the roles that each member of the troupe played and a few basic plots and themes: true love thwarted by a preposterous and often evil father, cunning servants who devise ingenious tricks and ruses, the soldier and the harlequin, etc. Each night, before the performance, the leader of the troupe would give his actors the plot twists for that night--with a few variations on character...
...Tempest, an oil that depicts the lovers swept up in a swirling sea of waves. "It is my most beautiful portrait," Alma wrote, noting that it showed her "trustfully clinging to him, expecting all help from him who, despotic of face, radiating energy, calms the mountainous waves." The theme of Tempest is repeated in miniature form-as the entwined lovers on the Bay of Naples-on one of the seven swanskin fans. On another, Kokoschka inscribed the Alma of the Alpine mural, adding himself as St. George fighting the dragon. Today Kokoschka refers to the fans as "love letters...
...looks like the control panel of a jet airliner with an organ keyboard grafted onto it-is by far the most effective device yet developed to produce electronic sounds. Besides serving as an "orchestra" for works by avant-garde composers, the Moog (rhymes with vogue) produced the bing-bong theme that for years preceded all CBS-TV color shows and the clarion call that heralds Westinghouse television commercials. The most spectacular application of the Moog to date is Composer Walter Carlos' electronic "orchestration" of ten Bach compositions for a Columbia LP called Switched-On Bach. The album has sold...
...Kierkegaard, Jaspers embraced the Judeo-Christian belief that "however minute a quantity the individual may be among the factors that make history, he is a factor." Such inwardly directed views led him in 1947 to write The Question of German Guilt, which outraged many of his countrymen for its theme of collective culpability for World War II, and he left Germany in 1949 to teach at Basel University. Most of his works were agonizingly abstruse and seemingly preoccupied with reconciliation to failure and death as prescriptions for personal salvation. But The Perennial Scope of Philosophy (1949) was both a definitive...
Glimp has four children in the Belmont school system. A central theme of his campaign has been the need to make better use of the town's $4 million school budget. He has proposed, for example, that the schools be open during the sum-for greater use by recreation and education projects...