Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just before the Presidential election, Joe Strecker passed a Negro church in Hot Springs, saw a white woman addressing a black & white audience of about 50. Communism was her theme. Joe remembers she told how bread and oranges were being cast into the sea by capitalists to hike prices. When the collection was taken up, Joe tossed in 60/. He must have signed something because he soon received a membership book from Kansas City headquarters of the Communist Party, with six 10^ dues stamps affixed and a handbill urging William Zebulon Foster for President. Joe Strecker, who had voted...
...John Dewey, the good grey philosopher, has spent his life exploring endless variations on a single theme: experience is the best teacher. Because he hitched William James's pragmatism to Education and insisted that Education must make sense to modern society, John Dewey has exerted a great influence on 20th-century U. S. pedagogy. But he has lived to be 79 and "America's Greatest Philosopher" without ever explaining how Education can make sense when a society does...
...criminal to put Charlie Ruggles--at his ladylike worst--on the same program with "Dawn Patrol," and the news reel needs editing badly; but when that is said, adverse criticism of the bill now at the University should stop. There may be some who will disagree with the theme of "Dawn Patrol," for it is pure isolationist propaganda, but there can be no one to say that it is not well done. Not one whit less real than the trenches of "All's Quiet," the headquarters of Squadron 39 reeks with atmosphere; and the men, down to the last...
...happy-go-lucky Americanism. Because she modeled her Russian Countess entirely too much on Lynn Fontanne's characterization, Norma Shearer is not so successful. Her Irene lacks the spontaneity of Gable's Harry Van. Yet with all its short-comings, "Idiot's Delight" is sustained by its immediacy of theme and powerful conflict of points of view. It is far above the average Hollywood production...
...Pianist Templeton moved on to Manhattan. Manhattanites liked his improvisations on any theme that was tossed up to him. His musical satires* floored them completely. Stoop-shouldered, solemn Templeton would sit at the piano and reproduce the sound of a whole Wagnerian opera, pounding out brass chords, yodeling out-of-tune soprano arias and throaty German tenor recitatives. From Wagnerian opera he would turn to Italian opera, lieder singing, Gilbert & Sullivan, the bedlam inside a music conservatory. Last week Pianist Templeton brought his improvisations and caricatures to Carnegie Hall, where they formed the dessert of a program of more conventional...