Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tenderly, whimsically told, despite its salty theme, this story won France's famed Goncourt prize...
...individual stands out preeminent in moulding world feeling about war. It is Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front." His novel is not pleasant reading. His theme is the horrors of war, the total futility of the conflict, and its deadening effect open a whole generation which can never forget the nightmares of the war years...
...manner quite obviously excellent. The speakers for the occasion will be two and two only--President James R. Angell from among the guests and President A. Lawrence Lowell on behalf of the hosts. Here is an assured promise of interest and significance. For once, one imagines, the theme of oratory will be not largely concerned with football. Two great educators will stand together before the Boston alumni of their two institutions, and the cause of higher education will have bright light turned upon it indeed. --Boston Transcript...
...with him from Louisiana. He is not even redhaired, as legend says, nor six feet tall. But two feet are better than six if they can carry you as fast as Cagle's through a broken field. And it is some consolation, if you are not handy at theme-writing, to be able to throw an accurate forward pass -a Cagle accomplishment for which some experts rate him a more valuable player than Iceman Grange of Illinois ever was. Entering another season of seeing his name in big headlines and hearing it thundered from the stands, drilling with...
...Perish!" As he rose to his climax Socialist MacDonald launched on a theme seldom seriously dealt with by League statesmen: Peace in the East. "There is an Old World," he cried, "old in civilization, old in philosophy, old in religion, old in culture, which hitherto has been weak in those material powers that have characterized the Western peoples. But that Old World, wrapped in slumber as we thought, has now become awake . . . and is asking us to grant it ... the freedom we have been nurturing and nourishing for ourselves for so many gen- erations...