Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grand hero of the left" but now an "impediment to much of what you want to do"--as one reason why he supports the ex-Georgia governor's at-times sacrilegious proposals for improving government services. Characteristically choosing the Vietnam War as an example, Fallows maintains that a theme that "rings out from history" is the inability of those performing a job to communicate what's going right and what's going wrong to those making policy decisions. He believes Jimmy Carter the businessman and government reorganizer would attack this "detachment" of experience and decision-making...
...film's second half lives up to the promise of the first half, cannot help hoping no one shoots him from his perch atop the dream edifice he has constructed. "No one cry when Jaws die," Dino says, his voice rising in passion as he develops his theme. "But when the monkey die, people gonna cry. Intellectuals gonna love Kong; even film buffs who love the first Kong gonna love ours. Why? Because I no give them crap. I no spend two, three million to do quick business. I spend 24 million on my Kong. I give them quality...
...vanishing race has a leitmotiv, it is an elongated, galloping wooden horse carved by a Sioux and collected by a missionary. Wounded - by a white man's bullet? - the anguished animal seems to be flying forever across thousands of miles of American experience. It epitomizes an essential theme of American art and literature: nature corrupted and innocence defiled...
...meets a glamorous, mysterious stranger, and Learns Something About Life. It is an endlessly employed formula that has generated such high and low art as The Great Gatsby and Auntie Mame. This first novel, The End of the Party, by Marvin Barrett, is yet another variation on the same theme. Here, the part of the glittering mentor is played by Dexter Hillyer, a Midwestern-born artist who rose to fame in the 1920s as a chic illustrator. Hillyer is seen through the few but vivid memories of his godson Emerson Mercer. The stages of his life are marked...
...theme of oppression as an inevitable part of love functions in this novel as a sort of clothesline on which selected vignettes from the heroine's life are hung. The technique of spotlighting only important periods of Stephanie's life results in a rather choppy narrative. Ideally, each chapter would contribute to a deepening understanding of the tyranny-of-love phenomenon. Unfortunately, the author so frequently loses control of her material that references to her putative theme seem to have been tacked on to each episode as afterthoughts. Her conclusions about the crippling side effects of love do not develop...