Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background of this ridiculous theme which makes the play interesting. The character of Lennie is developed in such a manner that he is not so much a hapless idiot as he is a well meaning child who has no idea of his own strength. Furthermore, the dialogue is lean and vivid, and the supporting parts are so created as to add an undercurrent of unavoidable tragedy. The very simplicity of the story and its treatment gives the play a certain tenderness and poignancy, and the plot moves nervously and swiftly towards the doom which hangs over these men and their...
Says Carroll: "I write as Ibsen did. I take the life of a small village and enlarge it to encompass all human life." It is finding a theme that takes time with him; writing comes easy. He plans no more religious plays. The theme of his next work, Kindred, is that a common love for art can bind people more strongly than blood or nationality...
...children returned last week to U. S. public schools to begin a new year, they found democracy attempting to bring its self-defense propaganda as well as maps up to date. U. S. teachers, fresh from year-end conventions whose theme was democracy's defense, read in the U. S. Office of Education's publication, School Life, a reminder that State laws require them to teach their pupils devotion to the ideals and principles of democracy...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) returns to conduct the NBC Symphony in Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony, Brahms's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel, Loeffler's Memories of My Childhood, Wagner's prelude to Die Meister singer...
Throughout the entire address the theme was his conviction that the world's ruling classes prefer Fascism to social reform. With reference to this he stated "If the masses are content to be trampled upon, there will be no Fascism...