Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Variations on the same theme were taking place in hundreds of German classrooms. Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert, assistant chief of staff of U.S. intelligence in Germany, wrote for the New York Times Magazine a remarkable analysis of how Germans rationalize their plight: "It has been said by someone that the German 'little man' has a suppressed desire to be killed some day by a hit-run driver on a pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order...
January Thaw uses one of those broad-comedy situations that can be funny for an act but is almost always fatal for an evening. Here very little is funny, even at the start. Beyond grinding out increasingly frantic variations on a single theme, January Thaw is always corny and often cobwebby in its humor...
When the screen rights of the Charles Jackson novel were bought by Paramount, many people seriously doubted that this novel of a dipsomaniac, the theme of whose life has been one long dissonance of wasted talent and alcohol, with overtones of homosexuality, could ever be made into a picture...
...House of Commons, miner M.P. after miner M.P. rose to develop the Lawther theme. Tories who had fought the rising tide for years tried again to stem it. Laborite Hugh Dalton taunted them: "You haven't got your heart in it; there was no punch...
...anniversaries." He composed a symphony in four parts, "in the classical way," which Chicago liked better than the critics. Last year the Philharmonic decided it also deserved a symphony to commemorate its 20 years' friendship with Stravinsky. Like the others, the Philharmonic's symphony has no story theme. "The music herself is enough," Stravinsky says. "She must decide her own nature...