Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though numerous deputies took up this theme, expressing substantially unanimous concurrence, the debate ended amid impotent wrath with a vote approving the reparations clauses of the German budget as presented by Finance Minister Dr. Koehler, himself an especially vigorous advocate of Dawes Plan revision...
...three plays to be given to night in the Agassiz theatre by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies, "Matches", "An Idyll of the Shops", and "Hunger", are varied in content; and all are in one way or another interesting. The first, by Liebovitz, has a profoundly human theme, the helpless idealism of an older generation confronting the callow indifference of the younger, a father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father...
...tyrant's nose in a murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition is developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners...
...first movement begins with a slow, very dignified theme in triple rhythm. The second theme is a three, noted figure, while the third and closing theme has two parts, one meditative, and the other triumphant...
...construction in general," is the mother of all the arts, held by many to be the first among them all. Painting and sculpture have at many times in the history of art served in a distinctly minor capacity as the handmaidens of architecture, as enhancements of the central theme...