Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Panama held the line. Honduras agreed to a 25-cent tax. To be sure the agreement would hold, United Fruit paid someone in the Honduran government half of a $2.5 million bribe; soon afterward, a group of young officers overthrew President Lopez Arellano. While the corruption is a classic theme, the fact is that United Fruit had to negotiate under the pressure of a tax on bananas, and in the face of a United Front, however short-lived...
...getting a lot of hype since her first two books were published simultaneously, and on the whole the claim that she is one of the most promising writers around right now seems justified. Both Chilly Scenes, a novel, and Distortions, a collection of short stories, center on the same theme: the emptiness of relationships formed through inertia, the bleak mindlessness of lives without purpose...
...poetry centers on the theme of man's projection into the world, not the interior life, he said. His major work is a 1700-page collection of poems called "Aire Nuestro...
Brave Orchid. "Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fit in solid America." The stalk of this simple theme sends out a profusion of memories. Most are contributed by Brave Orchid, the indomitable mother who lost two children in China, came to America at age 45 and produced six more offspring. Although her husband's laundries fail on both coasts of the U.S., her growing family maintains a beleaguered survival. To Brave Orchid, all non-Chinese are "ghosts," alien, powerful presences...
Several things work in their favor. Williams' central theme of mendacity has been reinforced by the lies of Watergate and Viet Nam; when Cat first appeared in 1955, it did not seem a parable of growing corruption in U.S. life. Time has also enhanced the understanding of Williams. He is no longer seen as the purveyor of grotesque Southern creatures. Gradually, it has become clear that his true terrain is the violated chambers of the human heart...