Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Schubert, 1797-1828--Theme, "Death and the Maiden," with variations, from Quartet, D minor...
...persistent caliber who would appreciate and benefit by the training. In theory, there seems no objection to furnishing a course in composition which will satisfy their needs. In practice, however, it is difficult to set standards which can not be evaded by the seeker of sinecures. If theme writing is to rise above the grammatical stage, a considerable latitude has to be allowed the individual. That this freedom may degenerate into license is amply proven by the suspension of English 6 in the crusade against the iniquity of case. Before a composition course is again opened to C students, some...
...evidence of a new era in Law was the central theme of Dean Pound's lecture in the Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon, delivered as part of the general Sunday course in religion...
...milder temper. Yet their daughter got on well with her mother, too. In the Princess Bismarck's absence she presided over the famed Yellow Salon so graciously that a newspaper of the day declared: "She has become a remarkably fine woman, whose wit and intelligence are the theme of general praise...
...seems strange that archaeologists, so careful of forgotten dwellings, should be so careless of living customs. Unless vigorous measures are taken, the last theme of adventure stories will disappear, for picturesque superstition threatens to follow romantic conflict in to oblivion. When Sabatini's buccaneering mine is exhausted, romancers of the old school will have nothing to write about...