Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Reiterating a theme he has addressed many times in the past two years, Dean Rosovsky states in his annual letter to the Faculty that education reform is needed at Harvard particularly in the non-concentration areas of the undergraduate curriculum...
...compared the literature they hold in high esteem with "the stuff you read in The New Yorker." He said the prevailing literary opinion is "tradition bound," concerned more with content and theme than style, technique, and innovative ways of telling the story...
...evening's theme song was the Helen Reddy-popularized hit "I am Woman," which the all-male three-piece band in the ERA reception ballroom played nonstop for long intervals...
These are the first words of The Autumn of the Patriarch, and what a way to begin a novel: the theme is artfully insinuated, an atmosphere instantly evoked like a puff of stage smoke, and all conveyed in language that generates a charge of expectancy. Admirers of Colombian Novelist Gabriel Garcia Márquez have come to expect such virtuosity. His One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970) is a flat-out masterpiece...
...this theme is really only an undercurrent in what is more overtly a delightfully humorous and energetic play. Eva Le Gallienne, tritely but rightly called "one of the truly great ladies of the American theater," plays Fanny Cavendish, the aged grande dame of the family and of the stage, apparently modeled after Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress and manager of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater at the end of the last century, and grandmother of Lionel, Ethel and John Barrymore. Eva Le Gallienne's performance is a masterpiece. She is the clear, ringing voice of Kaufman's satirical commentary...