Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peace after the war will be the theme of a debate between Harvard and Dartmouth Colleges this evening. The subject of the debate, which will take place in the Lowell House Junior Common Room at 8 o'clock, is "Resolved, that the United Nations after the war should establish an international police force to help preserve the peace...
...Jitters. Nazi-controlled radio stations nervously announced that D-day for invasion had arrived. Even the usually conservative communique of the German High Command picked up the theme...
Catherine is chief of a dozen characters who move through Author Gordon's seventh novel like shrouded figures on their way to the graveyard. For The Women on the Porch is a desolate, often poignant, hypersensitive study of life in death. Its theme: that in the world of today the dead are more alive than the living, memories more tangible than reality. Its chief quality: a sustained mood of doom that pervades every walk of life and hangs like a fog over the Tennessee landscape...
Repetition does not breed reward in this case. With continual emphasis on the same theme the humor palls somewhat but the authors have introduced a few novel twists which keep one guessing most of the time...
...picture's theme is the rise of Na tional Socialism from the gutter to the June 1934 Blood Purge. The film is a sober attempt to screen history. It is forceful as propaganda, sharp as cartooning, interesting as journalism, sometimes exciting as cinema. But it is inadequate to its subject. In part this failure is due to the attempt to pack 16 of the most crowded, crucial, sinister years of modern German history into 101 minutes of lively cinema. In part it is due to the fact that Nazi characters and motives are simplified to the point of absurdity...