Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atrocity stories were backed up by harangues on the theme that Italian immigrants have provided "the most solid working arms and the most capable brains on the North American Continent; . . . now the Americans are coming back over your ports and cities to repay you with bullets and to spread death and destruction." For Italo-Americans abroad the Fascists provided another line, easily picked up by the cheapest short-wave radio: Mussolini was forced to enter World War II because Britain would not grant the "just demands" of the Italian people for "freedom from fear." This ancient outcry comes from...
...week. The radio exhorted: "The battlefield spirit must be preserved within the home front. . . . There are many complaints. . . . But who suffers even more? It is Europe. . . . They are eating rats or crows. We are not, yet. . . . Our lot is not so hard." A mass rally in Tokyo struck another theme: "The enemy, America and Britain, is coming forward. . . . The war situation has become strained. . . . The 100,000,000 people of Japan must consolidate the feeling of hatred toward the enemy...
...Theme & Variations. Upon this theme, in poetry rich in paradox and reward, in mystery, in symbol, in despair and, ultimately, in hope. Eliot develops his great variations. The sere, cryptic titles of the four quartets are the names of places intimately associated with his experience. Burnt Norton was a Gloucestershire man or near which he lived for a while. East Coker is a Somerset village which was the home of his ancestors. The Dry Salvages (accented like assuages) is a group of rocks off Cape Ann, Mass. Little Gidding was a lyth-Century religious community established by Nicholas Ferrar. Each...
When Lara visited the pre-Olympic meets in San Salvador in 1935, the head lines declared: "Agustin Lara arrived, accompanied by Mexico's Minister of the Interior." Last week Agustin Lara was hard at work on a job which seemed a natural for him - a theme song for Lupe Velez' Mexican film appearance as Emile Zola's celebrated prostitute, Nana...
Intrigued by such contrapuntal variations on a simple theme, many a dub of long standing has plucked up interest. Checker sales are ballooning. And the crusty, generally introverted old men of checkers who have long pored over the game that few understood, now have company and competition in the new recruits who talk familiarly of Millard Hopper and bumptious Willie Ryan...