Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...being the rationalizing creature he is, sociobiology was bound to happen. In a scientifically overdeveloped, spiritually underdeveloped society, why not a pseudo discipline to ease the pain of conscience and individual accountability? It still sounds like a variation on the old predestination theme...
...Alternatively she is depicted as a treacherous snake in woman's dress, a harridan spitting venom and a wily warrior wielding a spiked club. Perhaps most shocking to the puritanical Chinese are caricatures of Chiang Ch'ing as a trollop. In one of many variants on this theme, she is shown reclining on a divan decorated with dollar signs, her skirt hiked up, while two of her sycophants nibble on her fingers and toes...
...Viet Nam. The six-day meeting in some respects resembled an overblown victory banquet. The 1,008 cadres and 24 fraternal foreign delegations-led by the Soviet Central Committee's Mikhail Suslov-endured no fewer than 55 speeches, including an eight-hour stem-winder by Le Duan. The theme of the Congress-Thong Nhat (national reunification)-was symbolized by the arrival of delegates from the South aboard the inaugural run of the rebuilt Saigon-Hanoi railway. Indeed, not only Thong Nhat was the leitmotiv of the long-winded harangues, but it was visible every day in Hanoi on newly...
Greed is the theme of the play, greed so compelling as to raise it to an obsessive lust for money. In this reincarnation, the setting has become San Francisco in the 1890s. Volpone has become Foxwell J. Sly, played with shark's-tooth gusto by George C. Scott. Rich and childless. Sly feigns grave illness in order to arouse the hopes of avaricious, fawning and wealthy townsfolk who hope to become his heir...
...sixth novel Read has traveled abroad and into history for a theme, attempting to write what could be thought of as his Brothers Karamazov, Polish-style. Stefan Kornowski−saint, sinner, intellectual−is Alyosha-Dmitri-Ivan all in one. The son of a ruined count, he moves into a shabby Warsaw apartment when the family country home is lost in the late 1920s. But while his sister, 17, goes to work in a jeweler's shop, Stefan, 15, manages the ultimate Dostoyevskian luxury: "Playing the role of the sort of person he ought to be." He dabbles...