Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer randomly permutating a basic word pattern. In PlayBeckett gives us the tried but true triangle of husband, wife and mistress and hints of insanity, murder and rape. But the characters are dead in this chamber piece; we see only their heads atop individual funeral urns. The theme of emptiness runs through both of these plays, which seem to be devoid of images but which, like the publicity poster, are enormously suggestive. Nancy Krieger has skillfully realized the implicit imagery of Beckett's plays in an intellectually engaging if emotionally sterile production she directs and designs...
...Salty. As such, it reads more like a State Department briefing paper, or perhaps one of H.R. Haldeman's "talking papers" than a memoir or autobiography. For historians of American diplomacy in the '50s and '60s, this kind of detailed reporting will be valuable, but its lack of unifying theme or humorous readability makes As It Was overall a less attractive book than Salty...
...alive are his incantations today? In 1857, the same year Flaubert was prosecuted for the alleged obscenity of Madame Bovary, Baudelaire was fined 300 francs for "offending public morality" with Les Fleurs du Mai. The theme of Flaubert's novel-the bored-to-adultery housewife-is the stuff soap operas are made of 120 years later. Today, Baudelaire's tragically ignored poems retain their original capacity to lacerate the skin of the mind...
...need to reassert humanist considerations in medicine is a recurrent theme in the latest issue of Daedalus. The journal includes essays by 20 of the most influential members of the American medical establishment on the state of their art and of health care in general. Steven R. Graubard, the journal's editor, writes that the issue is a first step towards redefining America's health problems. But the problems already have been redefined. The major obstacles to health have changed without sanction from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. While the Daedalus articles do not present any very...
...Bellini did earlier. Bellini, an Italian composer of the early nineteenth century, found arias where Prokoviev later discovered pas de deux. The opera, I Capuletti e I Montecchi, according to Loeb p.r., is marked by "intriguing departures from the original plot to produce a reinterpretation of Shakespeare's timeless theme," The Capulets and Montagues return to their original Italian from Shakespeare's English in the early May production at the Loeb...