Word: themelis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unlike Hollywood's recent flasco in a production of "The Hiry Ape," an old English movie version of "The Emperor Jones" retains the essential theme of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy, and by abridging it is able to include a wider period Brutus Jones's life leading up to his fight through the jungle...
...college entrance examinations, is calmly confident that the prep-school trend is "away from so-called progressive education." High point of the celebration this week was to be a performance (but in English) of Aristophanes' Clouds. Students dressed as roosters would stand behind bars and expound the theme of education-for-its-own sake: "The greatest of all blessings is to live and think more clearly than the vulgar herd...
...Mission. The twilight rulers of Germany preached to the last that the German people and armies were the enemies of Russian Bolshevism, the defenders of western civilization. Upon this powerful and insidious theme, they based the whole edifice of surrender...
...also composed tankas, the evocative 31-syllable poems of Japan. The theme of peace, like the threnody of frustration, haunted them. While his armies trampled on China and war clouds gathered above Europe, he wrote...
...shoulder load of what the G.I. thinks. The vets kid their disabilities ("the loss of my arm is no more of a handicap to me than my mother-in-law's . . . bridgework") ; ask no favors ("all we want ... is a normal life"); laugh at their own grisly-humorous "theme song," My Legs Are Getting Shorter All the Time. The most expensive and hard-hitting of radio's rehabilitation experiments, The Road Ahead has the explosive force of a buzz-bomb; it obviously shakes even the professional self-assurance of M.C. Fadiman...