Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chesterton chose to keep his own head is the theme of Maisie Ward's intimate biography. Biographer Ward (wife and business partner of Publisher Francis J. Sheed) is, like Chesterton, a Roman Catholic, and writes as one. Her book is fat with Chestertonian facts. It is also intelligent, somewhat adulatory, exhaustive (668 pages...
Those who attended the conference heard one worth-while address, a discussion of nutritional problems in wartime by Dr. W. E. Krauss of the Wooster, Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. The rest were more variations on the theme of "Turn the New Deal Rascals Out," with an irresponsible overworking of the terrible word famine. Perhaps to reassure themselves, the entire body repeated the pledge of allegiance to the flag at the opening of each session, five times in two days...
When the late Gustavus Myers first conceived this book (in 1925), he may not have thought that his theme would become more topical than the perpetuity of human malevolence. But since World War II began, surges of intolerance have grown so commonplace that the 20th Century, long accustomed to regarding itself as the most civilized age in human history, has been able blandly to disregard the fact that it has become the most savage. Race wars, class wars, the mistreatment of Negroes in the U.S., the deliberate efforts to exterminate the Jews in Europe, the coldblooded, scientific murder or enslavement...
...novel: Equinox (Allan Seager; Simon & Schuster; $2.75). The theme: platonic psychological incest...
...middle of the world's biggest war, a shrinkingly sensitive first novel with a 1920 theme has become a 1943 bestseller...