Astaire, Fred
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand): theme of; plot-theme of; quoted on conventional view of morality; quoted on man as a being of self-made soul
Avengers, The, successful British TV series
Ballet: as a system of dance ; essentials of its image of man; “modernization” of
Balzac, Honoré de, as Naturalist writer
Benefield, Barry, as popular-fiction writer
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), characterization in
Brown, Fredric, science fiction writing of
Byron, Lord, and “Byronic” view of existence
Camille (Dumas fils), and imitations of
Capitalism: destruction of, in politics; 19th-century Romanticists as enemies of
Cat and Mosue (Günter Grass), Time quoted on
Characterization in noveclass="underline" as essential attribute ; definition of; extreme degree of selectivity required in; achieved by action and dialogue; error of asserting nature of characters in narrative passages without supporting action; and portrayal of essential traits of personality ; and revelation of motivation; consistency as a major requirement of; maintaining inner logic of; and faculty of volition; and Romantic novelists ; and popular fiction; and the Naturalists
Chayefsky, Paddy, and modern Naturalist work Marty
Child’s development: of moral sense of life; contribution of Romantic art to; of cognitive and normative abstractions ; and imposition of set of rules by conventional morality ; learning concept of moral values; and sins of adults in regard to child’s understanding of morality; dichotomy in consciousness of the practical versus the moral
Choreographer: nature and demands of his role
Chronicle: characteristics of ; return of modern literature to art form of
Classicism: Romanticism as rebellion against; rules of, as improper criteria of esthetic value; school of, improperly regarded as representative of reason
Cognitive faculty: as determining the proper forms of art
Collectivism: resurgence of, and effect of, on Romanticism ; advocacy of, by today’s estheticians and intellectuals ; altruistic, today’s culture as dominated by
Color harmony: a legitimate element in painting
“Color symphonies”: as anti-art
Concepts, nature and function of
Conceptual consciousness: disintegration of, as the goal of modern art
Connery, Sean, performance of, in Dr. No
Consciousness: of man, art as serving a need of; art as confirming or denying efficacy of; integrating mechanism of, and sense of life; as soul; and faculty of volition ; concern of top-rank Romantic writers with
Creative process, a short story by Ayn Rand as illustrative of nature of
Crime and Punishment (Dostoevsky), motivation revealed in
Cubism
Culture: art as mirror of a culture’s philosophy ; art as barometer of ; state of, and today’s art
Dali, Salvador, style of
Dance: as a performing art ; as system of motion expressing a metaphysical view of man; its relation to music
Decorative arts: their nature and proper task
Definitions: as guardians of rationality
Determinism: philosophical and esthetic contradictions in; philosophy dominated by doctrine of; as basic premise of writers’ presentation of man prior to 19th century
Diatonic scale: development of
Dr. No (Fleming)
Don Carlos (Schiller)
Dostoevsky, Feodor: choice of subject by; reasons for liking work of; as master of integration of theme and plot structure; and use of motivation in Crime and Punishment; as top-rank Romantic novelist ; characterizations in novels of
Dramatic arts: subcategories of; importance of the play; director as integrator
Dreiser, Theodore, and a bad novel
Dumas, Alexander, as Romantic novelist
Emotional abstractions ; and individual’s view of himself; “important to me” as criterion of selection in
Epistemology: of physical sciences and of humanities; man’s need of; as abstract base of ethics ; see also Psycho-epistemology
Esthetics: Objectivist; criteria of judgment in; as branch of philosophy ; principles of; of literature, Aristotelian principle of; destruction of Romanticism in; field of, and mysticism; Romanticism in, as unrelated to theories of “Romantic” philosophers; state of, today, and prospects for philosophical Renaissance ; vacuum in, of our age
Ethics: as normative science ; link between metaphysics and; and artist’s conceptual theory of; place of, in work of art dependent on metaphysical views of artist ; metaphysical value-judgments as base of; man’s need of; destruction of individualism in; need of Western culture for a new code of ; epistemology, as abstract base of; relation of, to art; teaching as task of
Existentialists: philosophical view of existence of; sense of life achieved by
Ferber, Edna, as popular-fiction writer
Fiction: and identification of reader with characters in ; difference between real-life news story and ; four essential attributes of; and history, difference between representations of; integration of theme and plot as cardinal principle of; motivation as a key-concept in; see also Novel; Popular fiction
Film directors: Fritz Lang’s work
Flaubert, Gustave, style of
Fleming, Ian: as top-rank writer of popular fiction ; thrillers of
Fountainhead, The (Ayn Rand): character of Howard Roark in; Gail Wynand’s conflict of values in ; two scenes from, as illustration of process of characterization; example from, of Classicism surviving into 20th century ; quotation from; quoted on meaning of art in man’s life; “The explanation rests,” paraphrase of quotation from
From Russia with Love (Fleming)
Goldfinger (Fleming)
Gone With the Wind (Mitchell): theme of; plot-theme of
Goya, Francisco de, choice of subject by
Grand Guignol of old French theater
Grass, Günter, Time quoted on Cat and Mouse of
Hamilton, Donald, as top-rank writer of popular fiction
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, as writer of top-rank Romantic novel
Helmholtz, Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von: on mathematical nature of musical perception; on major and minor keys
Henry, O., as great Romantic writer