Word: themes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These stories are all constructed to portray one theme,--the human being on the rack; on the rack of physical pain, or anguish of the soul or unattained emotion. They illustrate a self-conscious passion, an examination of all of the details of human passion. In fact they constitute the very summary of all of the elements of the subjective...
...pleasing novelty there was a "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis," by Vaughan Williams. Last year his London Symphony pleased so that it was repeated. This fantasia is at least as fine as the symphony, and is a particularly noteworthy example of what can be done with scanty means. Of unusually appealing beauty is this Englishman's work, heretofore strangely unheard in Boston...
...leaves from Bossi's exercise book would have been more acceptable had not his "Theme and Variations" suffered so acutely from melodic poetry. As it stands the technical skill it displays is hardly sufficient excuse for its production. The overture to the "Meistersinger" and the manner in which it was played deserve only praise. Its beauty will survive when many of the clever modern cacophonies have long been forgotten...
...thesaurus might be bracketed with "unfairness", "laxity", "bribery", "corruption", "venality", "nepotism", and "fraud". These terms fly about whenever our thick political mud is stirred by investigation, reform, or election. By a process of association these ideas are inseparably connected. We laugh at humorists who use this condition as a theme, yet it is the thoughtless laughter which reflection stifles...
...though bearing many marks of inexperience, has some decided merits which justify the expectation of still better work from the author in the near future. If in a good many of its details it is more suggestive of clever moulding upon established modes than of original invention, the main theme is fresh and timely, is worked out with considerable ingenuity and a clear sense of dramatic situation up to the final climax and catastrophe, which are fairly logical, if not altogether convincing or inevitable...