Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mark Jones, president of the Akron Belting Co., likes to tell teachers what is wrong with U. S. education. His theme last week: let the nation's educators dispel some costly national "illusions"; to wit, equality, security, collective bargaining, economic planning, democracy. Said...
Written around a theme as modern as it is pertinent, "Dark Victory," currently at the Metropolitan, is a powerful production, well adapted to Bette Davis' peculiar talent for portraying the neurotic. As the Long Island society girl who discovers a meaning in life just before hers is snuffed out, Miss Davis gives a brilliant and convincing performance. This study of a woman torn between the routine religious attitude of the Victorian age and the realism of today will appeal to the philosophers in the audience. The way in which certain characters, like the trainer (Humphrey Bogart), are used to symbolize...
Catholic if somewhat cursory, Miss Hoffman's chapters on great sculpture are aided by keenly chosen illustrations. Once a worshiping student of Rodin, she speaks with equal understanding of the intense simplifications of Brancusi. But her chief theme is the craft itself. Among other things, she describes in ingratiating detail: the processes of casting in bronze, techniques and mechanisms for making enlargements from a small model, tools, tempers and techniques for working in different types of stone, an orderly scheme for scrubbing a studio...
...roughest written and most mellifluous, his most realistic and, in its ending, his most melodramatic, his angriest and most idyllic. It is "great" in the way that Uncle Tom's Cabin was great-because it is inspired propaganda, half tract, half human-interest story, emotionalizing a great theme...
...spirit of these migrants that composes the theme of the story. Steinbeck has made them real, round, solid characters. Brought up on selfreliance, now they come into conflict with things that are beyond them. The story sprouts from this base; as conditions grow worse, the spirit grows stronger. There is no resolution to the problem in the book though with no solution in sight, it ends on a note of trust in their integrity. The author has let actions speak for the morale of the people, with only occasional direct expressions of their philosophy, and this is as it should...