Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proceeded to prove it by not droning statistics, or by making belligerent assertions, but with a series of 106 big (2 by 3 ft.), easy-to-read charts, mounted on a 7-ft. easel and shifted by a clerk as Chester Bowles made the accompanying narration. Main theme: thanks to OPA, the U.S. has come off quite well in World War II as compared with World War I. Example: after 53 months of War I, the cost of living had risen 65%; after 53 months of War II it had risen only 26%-without hurting production...
...Negro girl, the climax is his murder by her brother, and the end is a lynching. The same story has been told & retold, expertly or awkwardly, with Freudian variations (as in the novels of T. S. Stribling), with Marxian overtones (as in proletarian novels). The main theme has been repeated in fiction almost as frequently as the lynchings that inspired it have occurred. It is a somewhat inhibiting theme, costly in that it imprisons literary imaginations that might otherwise be free to write of the rich and varied Southern life that is sufficiently exciting without it. But the story deals...
Madam Curie, the quiet yet dramatic story of the foremost woman scientist of our time, is now playing at the U.T. The theme of the picture is the discovery of radium by the Curies, an epic story of human persistence and scientific endeavor. Cast in the leads are Greer Garso and Walter Pidgeon, both of whom play their parts expertly with a degree of sureness and restraint not often seen in these days of B pictures. The supporting parts are also well cast. In particular, Dame May Whity, giving a good characterization of Pierre Curie's mother...
Ever since "Col. D. Streamer" (Harry Graham) wrote this callous little quatrain (Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes') in 1901, British poetasters have amused themselves by writing variations on the theme. Recently London's weekly Time & Tide offered prizes for the best wartime ruthless rhyme. Three of the six prizewinners...
Last fall China reciprocated, sent a good-will mission to England to propagate the theme that the two nations should be "co-architects of peace." The missionaries: 52-year-old Dr. Wang Shih-chieh, onetime Minister of Education; editor-publisher Wang Yun-wu; Hu Lin, managing director of the powerful liberal newspaper Takungpao; educators Han Li-wu, Dr. Wen Yuan-ning. They met King George, Winston Churchill and other British bigwigs. Last week Dr. Wang Shih-chieh and Hu Lin arrived in the U.S., the others proceeded to Turkey. They were still making friends for China...