Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gale's are incredibly and painfully fictitious. Her style, suffering since Miss Lulu Bett from chronic realism and acute poetic indigestion, is scarcely to be recommended as a model of lucidity to students at the University of Wisconsin, of which she is a Regent. An explanation of her elusive theme may be that Miss Gale has lately been concerned more with spiritualism than with literature...
...Dramatic Club has presented a twelfth century miracle play in a manner which suggests more the period of the building than the period of any of the other elements involved. A miracle play, like all that is ritual or desended or ritual, is a variation on a theme; and in the recurrent miracle plays the text has formed but a very small element of the orchestration. In this play the text is less interesting than in some that have preceded. Or it may be obscured by a frequently infelicitous translation which fortunately is covered up to some extent...
...Marche Hongroise is what might be expected from one who was not a romanticist but romanticism itself. IT is a theme taken from an old Hungarian war song which Berlioz incorporated into the Domination of Faust making of it one of the most brilliant of orchestral pieces...
...stated that Mr. McCracken was there when the child was born and Mr. Duggan was not, so I now do know which parent was which. But you can see some of the figures and various suggestions which I conjured. I must let them go and get into my theme. I think I am down to talk about Outstanding Problems in American Education. It is a very serious topic...
...Student Christian Association of Greater Boston and a student in Boston University, College of Liberal Arts will speak this evening at 6.45 o'clock in Standish Hall Common Room on "The Chinese Question." The meeting this evening is the third in a series of four meetings on the general theme of internationalism being held under the auspices of the Harvard Mission...