Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dangerous duty of the septet is to mop up John Brown (Raymond Massey) and his followers, then engaged in smuggling slaves out of the South. On this peg is hung a moving and tragic theme: that these friends, fighting side by side, are innocently feeding a flame which will soon surround them, find them enemies in an irrepressible conflict. With the help of Director Michael Curtiz' well-tempered direction and Massey's passionate interpretation of Zealot Brown. Santa Fe Trail, in spite of its hackneyed romance, becomes a brilliant and grim account of the Civil War background...
Generally speaking, in fact, the bards appear to be tongue-tied by their theme -perhaps through awe, perhaps through shame over faked emotions...
Last week the Roosevelt Administration took up Mr. Wilson's gun-or-butter theme. Fragile, 73-year-old Secretary of War Henry Lewis Stimson announced that non-military airplanes hereafter will be classed as butter. With chilly disapproval, he quoted a report that booming, under-equipped U. S. airlines hoped by mid-1942 to double the 322 passenger planes now in service. Secretary Stimson told the airlines and their manufacturers to forget that program, count themselves lucky if they can continue their rate of replacement. Said Henry Stimson: "Which is more vital to the nation right now-increased military...
...Samuel Richardson's Pamela popularized seduction as theme, letter sequences as form, stuffy moralizing to answer moralists' cries of frivolity and vice...
Taking as his theme "Significant Changes in the World in the Past Sixty Years" or "Some Difficulties in Growing Old," Bertrand Russell, noted philospher and mathematician, last night told a large gathering in the Eliot House dining room that the main difference between the world of 1940 and the 19th century is the decay of security in Europe...