Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stricken world for a lasting peace will echo through those halls. The seven dynamic forces have survived every crisis. They will be with us again. We know all this from the nature of the human animal, from his long toilsome experience." To exploring and buttressing this pessimistic (or realistic) theme, they devote two-thirds of the book...
...wife discovers that she is really unhappy because her husband is spending too much time and attention on his work and too little on her. So she decides to divorce him, and the play deals with his efforts to keep his happy home from disintegrating. Familiar as this theme sounds, the characters themselves are even more so. First there is the heroine, a beautiful, intelligent, well-meaning wife of the Candida type, who decides that financial prosperity isn't all there is to life and decides to look for real happiness. Her husband is equally conventional as a likeable, prosperous...
...things to be bickering about, air power, the very lifeline of the efforts of both their forces! General Headquarters demanded satisfaction after Pearl Harbor. Let's investigate Colonel Knerr's theme before another large-scale investigation is necessary...
...When the history of American education during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries comes to be written, the development of the state-supported universities will be the dominant theme. The tremendous growth of these institutions during the first half of the twentieth century is a unique phenomenon. This growth will be recorded by historians as clear evidence that the optimistic intellectual courage born of the fifteenth century Renaissance was, five centuries later, still driving westward with undiminished vigor...
...book's major theme is the Wellsian life history (from zoosperm to zany) of Edward Albert ("Teddy") Tewler, who, for Author Wells, symbolizes the lower middle class in general, and the British lower middle class in particular. It is a classצr, more essentially, a state of being—which Herbert George Wells loathes (not without pity) with the aching contempt of familiarity. He springs from it. Wells feels the same aching contempt for 'Teddy" Tewler. But like all crusaders, he longs to redeem the thing he loathes. This novel is a fictional prelude to redemption. Its purpose...