Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme, which is titled "In Defense of the Efficiency of Democracy in Wartime," is complete with boogie woogie interludes and pseudo news items in imitation of Walter Winchell, such as, "Flash! Warsaw falls...
There was a problem however, that could not be solved by merely buying a good script and casting good actors. Behind this amusing play there appeared a subtle theme which had all the characteristics of intelligence--a thing that seldom happens in Hollywood. It wasn't one of those stories where boy gets girl, then gets it in the neck and lives ever after. "Philadelphia Story" was written by a man who was extremely conscious of the differences in human nature and the part that environment plays in making it different. The author may have exaggerated a bit the space...
...Evidently it is not only one of Poulenc's best works, getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down, so my informant says, into a vein of jocosity, busy chattering strings, and short reiterated little figures, (a trick used very successfully by Strawinsky in his recent symphony), And throughout the work there is a good deal of musical wisecracking--banal tunes, whizzing themes, sound effects...
...Fourth Symphony that the qualities of intensity and warmth one associates with Brahms attain their final fusion, and at the same time their most complete expression. The First Symphony had dangled awkwardly between saccharinely and fustian. The Second was better unified, but its succession of lush themes cloyed one with an overdose of sweetness, while the lyrical Third fell short in Brahmsian power. The Fourth, then, is Brahm's finest work in the symphonic form. It is pretentious, but for me at least, it fulfills its pretensions. As commentators have pointed out, the whole work is steeped in passion, even...
...intention were that it be read. But in other respects it runs true to type. It is longer than most good books (938 pages); it is padded (the story hardly starts in the first 100 pages). All it lacks to be perfectly in the vogue is a jingoistic theme...