Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This letter is written in response to the article written on February 22, 1977 entitled "Black Group Remembers Malcolm X." It is the opinion of the writers of this letter (as representatives of the Student Committee on Afro-American Studies--SCAAS) that the article totally misrepresented the major theme and intentions of the forum given in honor of Malcolm X, primarily through faulty journalistic practices. We would first like to criticize the haphazard journalism, and then clarify those ideas which we wanted to communicated through the forum...
Unfortunately, in the second act Berger stumbles, failing to maintain his revealing characterizations. He resolves his psychodrama in the most facile manner. Instead of continuing to explore Todd's and Leo's inability to handle a deep involvement, he introduces a new theme--their suppressed homosexuality. Just as they hide their feelings for women, they submerge their love for each other. The frustrated lovers transfer their apprehension about homosexuality to their heterosexual relationships. It is too easy a solution. The candle that emitted illuminating rays in the first act has burned down to leave only an amorphous mass...
Sandi Slone, a faculty member of the Museum of Fine Arts, is exhibiting some recent acrylic paintings. Sporting such varied titles as "Thunderstruck," "Rondo," and "Stalking the Giants," the works all follow the same theme and differ basically only in color...
...LaFollette makes a Noble stab at rescuing the show, but her obvious talent is wasted. No one can deliver lines like "proceeds from the benefit will go to the Mongolian idiots" and look good. The President's wife does get the chance to enlighten the audience with the ostensible theme of the play, which, according to her, is "fear, ambition, and hate...
...startling. Frye himself admits in "Expanding Eyes" that he hasn't "budged an inch in 18 years" since the publication of his major critical work, Anatomy of Criticism. All his scholarship since then has fit his own description of Wallace Stevens's poetry: variations on a theme. Nevertheless, Spiritus Mundi constitutes at the very least an appropriate introduction to Frye's critical preoccupations; it also contains a number of interesting re-explorations of topics he has treated previously. Among the best essays are "The Times of the Signs," which explores the gradual dissociation of the mythological and scientific cosmologies...