Word: themes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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IVES: ORCHESTRAL SET NO. 2 (RCA Victor). This is a first recording of a three-movement symphony finished soon after Three Places in New England and like it a Babel of musical quotations. The first theme, worked and reworked in the movement called An Elegy to Our Forefathers, is from Old Black Joe: "I'm coming, I'm coming...
...glibbest assumption about Pinter-that he dramatizes the severed communication lines of modern man-is the least accurate. Not inability to communicate but unwillingness to communicate is his central theme. He argues: "I think that we communicate only too well, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility." And so, to Pinter's people, speech is a strategy for escaping detection. They reverse their statements and talk past other people...
...Mighty Theme. Styron's passions seem to be confined largely to the printed page. The darker emotions-fury, despair, guilt-pour through all of his works, but Styron himself projects the reserved, slightly courtly manner of the storybook Virginian. It is a coincidence that his book should come on the heels of the summer riots. While Styron does not condone the violence, he views it through a chilling perspective sharpened by his five years with Nat Turner. The Negro extremist, says Styron, "is purifying himself by violence of a sense of his own abject self-ratedness...
...undoubted success of Nat Turner, Styron feels that he has discharged an obligation. "Melville said that for a mighty book you must have a mighty theme. I hesitate to quote that because it sounds pretentious, but my theme was god-sent...
...every stop in Boston and Cambridge today, Romney's theme will be the problems of the cities, a spokesman for the governor said yesterday. On his last swing through Cambridge, when he spent three days as an honorary associate of the Institute of Politics, the Michigan governor was questioned on Vietnam, but he refused at that time to be specific in any public statements...