Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...countless romances and tragedies that have been written around this theme are no exaggeration of the fact. Men will continue to be forced to marry, or women not to marry, if they are to win their inheritance. Nevada will continue to have as many Rhodes Scholars as New York. Cat-sanitariums and homes for eeble-minded poll-parrots will continue to prosper, while "humanitarian" institutions in the literal sense of the word are suffering from want of funds. This is a part of the heritage of Past to Present...
...Year's resolution shouted from the housetops and repeated again and again in the days following. may ring hollow, but at least it is emphatic enough to make people listen. Similarly three-column headlines on the same theme appearing for seven days in the newspapers of New Year's week, indicate that the world is making up its mind to do something important some-where...
...very favouably received by the Paris critics when it was first produced at the Comedie Francaise Theatre in 1912; they recognized it as the first play to treat successfully the career of a middle class Frenchman of the present day. Its significance lay in the novelty of the theme, comparatively new to the French stage...
...Possessing considerable wittiness of line, together with adequate and occasionally admirable characterizing touches, this sketch of "gentell" English life is a well-constructed variant of the untutored-person-in-high-society theme. In this case, the son of the house has become engaged to the very attractive daughter of a deceased bookmarker, and his ingenious mother invites the girl and her "designing" parent to Deynham so that her son may see by contrast the short-comings of his bride-to-be. From the opening scene of general consternation in which the rector's wife remarks that "In times like these...
...first glimpse, "The Lawbreaker" at the St. James promised to be a rather well-coated pill of conventional morality. Then by dextrous sleight of hand the reform play became a potential tragedy, the theme of which was, "Mind your own business"; the calomel was changed for quinine. And at the last, of course, was dragged in the inevitable happy ending, for the sake of the sugar. A surprise play it was, in other words, with the plausible cleverly substituted for the logical at each turning point. A psychological study it was, too, of not inconsiderable power...