Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Simone de Beauvoir, it seems maddeningly unfair that a sufferer from the degenerative disease, life, should in addition be tormented by the petty affliction of being female. In three new novellas she returns to the theme as to a sore tooth...
...grasping the scope and depth of this monstrous injustice stem in part from their teaching and working in a 99 per cent white university -- an elite, businessman-banker-controlled university, at that. Nonetheless, the realities of American society are such that a course on George Wallace's favorite theme -- "An End to Urban Violence" -- might just provoke some sharply negative responses from the intended victims...
...more damning than anything in Roth's last novel, a story of an unwed mother in the great Midwest called When She Was Good (1967). And there are a few bits reminiscent of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), like an incident in which a Jewish businessman insists that the theme from Exodus be pumped into an operating room "so everyone should know what religion he is." Still, there are many spots where Roth omits scenes that beg to be told. We see Portnoy berate a girl called The Monkey when she dresses up like a whore for a party at Mayor Lindsay...
...smaller groups with little nationwide appeal. Despite long years of political apathy and a lack of distinctive platforms, the campaign was fairly spirited. In Bangkok, a Democrat Party stronghold, U.T.P.P. rallies were interrupted by hecklers. Moreover, the Democrats, ignoring dire warnings by General Praphas, hammered home their main election theme-corruption in government...
...mainly reflections of his 24 years as a businessman; of a heart attack; in Marathon, Fla. Hawley retired from Armstrong Cork Co. in 1951 to write his first novel, Executive Suite, a simplistic look at high-level corporate intrigue, and followed that with two more variations on the same theme (Cash Mc-Call, The Lincoln Lords), all of which made him far wealthier than most of his business colleagues. He suffered a heart attack in 1962, and his recent novel, The Hurricane Years, is a disquieting disquisition on the physiological stresses and strains that accompany the executive life...