Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the article was written, the editors rewrote it six times over before they felt it measured up to its theme. For its purpose is a tremendous one-to "spin the world" and let you visualize its 2,000,000,000 people with all their conflicts, hopes and aspirations-to help you think of the peace not in arbitrary terms of fixing new frontiers and imposing just penalties, but in human terms of the lives and dreams of all the peoples of the earth...
...structural form and wandered aimlessly through a series of cacophonous variations on the first subject. The second movement, valse, combined an absurdly technical display by the soloist with a weak background on the strings. Several abrupt pauses in the final movement punctuated the variations on the G-minor theme. Noel Coward's description of Dukelsky's operetta "Yvonne" as "Yvonne the Terrible" might well be extended to include this concerto...
Extreme protectionism, a sort of latter-day mercantilism, was McKinley's political theme song. And although he suggested reciprocal trade treaties with a Latin American Republic, he opposed wholeheartedly every attempt to realize such treaties because they were too generous...
From time to time for several months the House of Representatives has been lectured by Kansas Representative William P. Lambertson on a theme that engrosses him: that President Roosevelt's four sons (James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., John) are getting preferential treatment in the armed services, have been coddled and "jerked" from combat zones. Republican leaders tried in vain to silence the Kansas sniper. Last week Democrats made a crushing answer...
...less willing to admit, in so many words, that Yank is, objectively approached a morale builder for the masses of the Army; the privates, corporals, and sergeants. But Yank is that; its prime but never outspoken theme is the Glorified Enlisted Man. It also plays the more formal role of purveyor of information to the ranks. McCarthy feels the functions of entertainment and information are divided "fifty-fifty" in his paper...