Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Harry Truman found himself saddled with a theme song, too. When he stepped from his plane at San Francisco, the band wobbled through The Missouri Waltz. When he went to Independence, The Missouri Waltz (which was originally composed by an lowan, John Valentine Eppel) followed him. The Chicago publishers had to fill a rush order for scores from Missouri when the President got back home...
...Ezio Taddei, an Italian anarchist, climbed the Alps and escaped to France and the U.S., after 18 years in Fascist prisons. His new novel, The Pine Tree and the Mole, is a study of Italian society some 2,000 years after Virgil's death. In both books the theme is the tortured condition of man when the old gods fall before the dictatorship of Caesar...
...major theme is the exploitation of Japan's national hypochondria. Says one leaflet: "Water lines and electricity will be destroyed by bombs. Food will become scarce. Thus, you will weaken and become sick. . . . With every bombing the country becomes more unclean, and it is more difficult to control disease. Put an end to this needless suffering. Demand that the militarists who started this war bring...
They heard him out. His broadcasts offered a certain comic relief from the dull BBC, and in the long run they only toughened the tough British spirit. A musical comedy was written around the Haw Haw theme and a mystery thriller was named...
Even on an ancient sound track, Beethoven's music is magnificent, but it is poorly used. Concentrating on the symphonies, the French producers use parts of the fifth as a constant theme, and forget completely the masterful concertos, chamber, and vocal works, as well as other of the symphonies...