Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Volume II, which will appear this fall, concentrates on a single theme--"The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America...
Huston's problem as a director has always been indecision. His laconic humor and bent for undisciplined improvisation invariably takes precedence over careful development of theme through characterization and narrative. In The African Queen, the pretentions of melodrama cancel-out the element of romance, providing only an irritating absence of clarity of purpose. Considering its creators, The African Queen represents a sad, if entertaining, meeting of people whose careers were moving downhill. Bogart and Hepburn had made by far their best films, she for Cukor and Bogart for Hawks; Huston's reputation as a director grew deservedly tarnished...
Squares for Imagery. The theme of the festival, in Foss's words, is "perhaps revolution, not in the Communist sense but in the Bucky Fuller sense, meaning that if we don't learn to adapt ourselves to the modern situation now, it's the end-and the artist must show us the way." The star and theme setter of the art exhibit, appropriately enough, is that grand old Russian revolutionary and pioneer sculptor of the 1920s, Naum Gabo, 77, with 28 constructions on display. Though the original idea for the festival was Foss's, the planning...
Fiedler advanced his theme in Waiting for the End, in which he announced that society's basic malady was a weariness with traditional humanism. He assessed man's efforts to achieve salvation through political ideology and art, and concluded that the U.S. had begun to shift from a whisky culture to a dope culture. In 1964 this was not prophetic vision but alert reporting. He took an extra step, however, by describing the spread of marijuana, peyote and the synthetic mind benders as "the red man's revenge." The Return of the Vanishing American, an examination...
...conceived alliance between the University and the war in Vietnam. Thus even when the students in Mallinckrodt began to compose a list of demands one night last October, someone suggested that they include the abolition of ROTC at Harvard. But although the suggestion seemed in keeping with the theme of the sit-in, it was quickly voted down: there was a general feeling that ROTC wasn't going to be disposed of so easily, and anyway, no one knew much about...