Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nation published an article from the pen of Ernest Gruening who has been in Mexico during the past four months. He gives an illuminating account of conditions in Mexico, although the entire article is somewhat of a tirade against United States imperialism. " Too late," is Mr. Gruening's theme. If the United States had recognized President Obregon when he came into power in 1920 "ihe whole question would have been on a different footing. In the interim Mexico has developed; she has come to feel her independence and to rely upon...
McGraw is naïvely convinced that college training is ideal for the professional ball player. In fact, this idea is almost the central theme of his book. He dwells on it so fondly that the uninitiated might suspect the colleges existed solely for the purpose of producing intelligent ball players. Unconsciously Mr. McGraw has thus produced a piercing satire, far more brilliant than Mr. Edison's, against our reverent institutions of the so-called higher learning...
...story of Bartholow is human matter fit for the pen of James of Meredith not unlike "Modern Love" in theme and manner but Meredith devoid of ornament. Bartholow, celebrating liberation of soul and intellect, discovers late the treachery of the liberating Raven "a resident savior domiciled", serene, a hypocrite redeemed by understanding. The woman, Gabrielle, whose tragedy is just a foil for Bartholow's reveals how superficial insincerity can stultify a spirit over-prone to casual conformity, until it dies unnourished. Like a "confidant" the other character--perhaps the post--is an incongruous philosopher who talks a Latinized American appropriate...
...Davison '06 will conclude his public organ recitals for this year with a recital this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. The program follows: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Bach Invocation Andante, Mendelssohn Intermezzo, Bonnet Variations on a Breton Theme, Roparts Scripture Reading Minuet, Boellman Chanson Triste, Tschaikowsky Bourree, Handel Choral Prelude, Brahms Allegro (Sixth Symphony), Widor
...VEGETABLE-F. Scott Fitzgerald-Scribner ($1.75). An Alger theme Fitzgeralded through three acts of a mildly amusing play. Jerry Frost was one of the 9,999 who, according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks...