Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After boasting that the unfavorable Irish trade balance is steadily declining, and that Irish mercantile business is on the boom, President Cosgrave dwelt upon the present hydro-electric development of the River Shannon, chiefly famed as a theme for lachrymal Irish sentiment...
...difficult to maintain, is that even our most indubitably gifted moderns have so little passionate conviction about the things that they want to paint, or the necessity for painting them. "The vitality of any art, even in its most formal and purely aesthetic aspect, depends on some theme which is a living factor in the existence of a whole people and which colors their emotions and motivates their lives. . . . "To say that pictures need not, or should not, tell a story is to state the problem falsely. In all great epochs of art, the painter's subject was already...
While electrical engineers, supply men, mechanical and transportation experts conferred at Atlantic City (see p. 31), railroad magnates gathered importantly at the Bankers' Club, Manhattan, for the monthly luncheon of the Eastern Railroad Presidents' Conference. Competition was their theme, the new tariff of the Illinois Central their particular problem...
...party's convention, Mr. Coolidge summoned the business organization of the government, sang the swansong of a prudent housekeeper. Something less than a paean, his main theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number...
...Juan is perhaps the most celebrated; Till Eulenspiegels Merry Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...