Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have something important to say about the life and customs of each place, about the young Hebrew scholar and the aging Catholic priest, the Canadian orphan with musical aspirations and the illiterate Italian aristocrat? Slowly, it becomes apparent that Helprin is experimenting with the application of his theme--the mixture of past and present--to different situations...
...played for pigeons would have made them rise in intolerance and bend in a sheet of white and gray across the plane of Paris sky," Helprin is happily oblivious of the fact that he has added nothing new to what earlier and better writers have already said about the theme of American artists in Paris...
...tree, nothing pretentions, but if I know my governor-generals they don't just let the day slip by. I mean, the governor-general probably gets Christmas cards from people he knows back home, and for all I know he may even send some out himself, with a Tahitian theme or something. A native girl lying under a Christmas tree, I don't know...
...written 400 songs, 18 of which have sold more than 1 million discs apiece. He has leased his old hits for five years to a golden-oldie outfit called American International. The deal is likely to bring him half a million in royalties. Residuals from the Tonight Show theme, which he wrote in 1962, yield $30,000 a year. For $50,000 against royalties, Anka cut Kodak's advertising jingle, The Times of Your Life. Now Paul and the jingle are rising on the pop charts as well. This Christmas he is opening his own auberge, Chez Paul...
...collection of short stories, Look How the Fish Live, has taken the risk of focusing on pastors and curates. Although it's sometimes a little difficult to identify with his characters--how many of us are curates, after all?--the clergy and the Church are perfectly suited to the theme that runs through Power's stories. Powers's main concern is the lack of defined relationships in a world of change and ever-increasing technology and the Church's structured hierarchy is an ideal sphere for examining the breakdown of traditional relationships...