Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rather unusual issue of the magazine would appear on the news stands on Friday morning, April 27. The feature article, by John A. Strauss '36, is entitled "Community Menace," a long tale of adultery in the Middlewest. Strauss avoids all that is vulgar and repulsive in this theme, which, as a result, is a very sane treatment of sex conditions in that section of the country...
...Part of Sociology in the Reconstruction program" chosen as the general theme of the conference, was the topic of most of the addresses on the program...
...Sociology as Edward Heinmann, Niles Carpenter, Robert S. Lynd, the author of "Middletown," R. M. McIver, Pitirim A. Sorokin, Chairman of the Department of Sociology at Harvard and Carle C. Zimmerman, associate professor of Sociology has been arranged for the delegates. The sociologists have chosen for the main theme of the meeting, "The part of Sociology in the Reconstruction Program," and the speeches will deal in the main with this subject...
...theme of this comedy is well supported by the cast. Laurette Bullivant as the jilted flancee produces an excellent burlesque of Ophelia, "Whiskey, that's for forgetfulness!" Grayce Hampton, the maid who has lived with the family so long that she now runs it, gestures agreeably the more so when she is drunk. Miss Frederick, her majesty, handles her role with great sophistication and taste, and with scarcely a single let-down. The other support is adequate...
American the ballet was in theme rather than execution. The theme was the construction of the two railroads, the Union and the Central Pacific, which Leland Stanford's ill-aimed blow symbolically joined together. But both music and choreography-breath and flesh of any ballet-were the work of Russians: the music of Nicholas Nabokov, 31-year-old composer of Alsace and Paris; the choreography of Leonide Massine, 36-year-old master of the present Russian ballet. Only the libretto by Archibald MacLeish, the stage sets by Albert Johnson (The Band Wagon, As Thousands Cheer) and the costumes...