Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group of alumni, headed by Corliss Lamont if I recall correctly, took the initiative in publicizing the case and raised a fund to make restitution to the women concerned. I had to write an editorial defining the CRIMSON's stand on this gesture of the alumni group. The theme of the editorial was "a plague on both your houses:" Harvard had followed a foolish and niggardly policy, but the alumni should have had better taste than to wash dirty linen in public. Let Harvard pay decent wages, let the too-easily-excited alumni calm down, and let's all forget...
...magnificent as a sensuous Indian girl. Technicolor is made the most of, with some splendid photographic effects, and the only serious fault to be found is that the pace is sometimes too slow. It is a great pity that a picture so excellent in execution and so religious in theme should be chopped up by the censors...
...strength of Other Voices Other Rooms, Novelist Capote is safe from smothering in laurels. The book is a literary contrivance of unusual polish, better than the brightly ghostly short stories that gave its author a minor reputation. But it is immature and its theme is calculated to make the flesh crawl...
...Capote, who was born in New Orleans, owes something to Proust, something to Faulkner. In some ways he gets very close to childhood and to the profoundly sensational values of a child. But for all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
...painted the Republicans as inept, as the party of privilege, of the "corporation lawyer" and the rich industrialist. He hung the depression around Hoover's neck and kept it there. He made a mockery of Hoover's optimism and never let the country forget Hoover's theme that prosperity was just around the corner. He never let succeeding G.O.P. candidates forget Hoover's prediction that "grass will grow in the streets" if the Democrats were elected...