Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...theme: his antipathy toward big business, big cities; his faith in small colleges, banks and towns. Almost nostalgically he recalled spending "the best ten years of my life" on a 540-acre farm in Jackson County, Mo. "I would rather see a thousand banks," he said, "than one National City Bank. I would rather see a hundred steel companies than one United States Steel Corporation." Explained the biggest shot in the biggest Government in the world: "Those small institutions give some two or three men a chance to be big shots in their communities. When you go to [big ones...
...results, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery this week, showed something of the lavish care and knotted intensity with which medieval monks illuminated the writings of the Church Fathers and the lives of the Saints. But their subject matter was more surrealistic than sacred. Their usual theme: the horror of war, illustrated by such symbolism as rotting flesh on temple steps. There were no heroics. In the new Dark Age, saints bore assumed names, and martyrdom was usual...
Freddy Waters Down. Freddy has been borrowing from Tchaikovsky ever since, and it doesn't cost him a cent. He has recorded Nutcracker Suite (an album of eight sides), Serenade for Strings and the theme of the Sixth ("Pathétique") Symphony, titled Now and Forever, with lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there...
Despite its painfully vital theme and generally plausible story, On Whitman Avenue is flattish propaganda and flatter theater. Working from the problem in, instead of from the people out, it consistently substitutes cardboard for flesh & blood, cliches for sharp, individual reactions. Dramatically, moreover, it soon hobbles, eventually halts. Fairly interesting while matters are coming to a head, from then on it can only .repeat its wrangles, restate its issues, and delay its ending...
Campbell was nowhere near so adventurous when, during a visit at an Eskimo camp, he was offered a wife for the night. That offer (rejected) illustrates his theme: "The Eskimo is communistic-he shares everything. He shares his sled, his dogs and his wife. He does not explain life. He lives...