Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This Saturday afternoon at Emerson Hall the Massachusetts State Branch of the American Federation of Teachers will hold their Fifth Annual Conference. "Defense of Education" is the theme of the sessions, and visitors are welcome...
...currents of defeatism in Washington last week. It came not from isolationists. It came from devout New Dealers, adherents of the President's foreign policy. Their theme: the "morale" of the U.S. was bad. President Roosevelt said that the people were not sufficiently "aware," but thought that cracker-barrel talk would make them more so (see p. 13). But Washington believed that around the cracker barrels the talk was all isolation, defeatism, apathy...
...theme of Flotsam is one of the most massive, intimate and terrible derangements of human living within human memory. Remarque, able as he is, is not fully equal to it; perhaps no human talent could be. Besides, Flotsam has some lyric flights that droop in midair; some touches of sentimental sententiousness; some comedy too national quite to cross a border; one or two bits almost of cheapness. But Remarque, like Hemingway, has the rare ability to produce writing which is both a genuine work of art and popular; and to embody a generation. For that reason Flotsam is a deeply...
...Eugene O'Neill's "The Great God Brown" was first produced as an experiment. It was an experiment because its abstract theme, as O'Neill says, is hidden "dimly behind and beyond the words and actions of the characters." The play's message is not to be found directly in the dialogue or in the body movements, but "manifests itself as an overtone." This, then, is the problem in expression which the Harvard Dramatic Club undertook last night at Sanders Theatre...
...interesting, if not novel theme which the author has selected, but one which has been dealt with only lightly by her pen. After twenty years abroad, a wandering farmer's daughter returns to the old homestead, seeking relaxation and rebirth which she feels that getting back to the earth again can give her. She finds the old and sturdy stock has deteriorated. The oak has turned into an Oakie, and the cheap dance-hall, the installment-burdened car and mortgaged farm comprise the life of a people squeezed of ambition by years of poor crops and unprofitable prices. Fortified...