Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Claude is a prolific composer, having written both semi-classical and popular music. The composition of his own which he likes best is "Vamping A Coed", but his most popular is his theme "I Would Do Anything...
...story is based on the somewhat dubious theme that a child of nature should not be forced to endure the strict letter of the white man's law, but before the film is half an hour old, one hates the stupidity of colonial government and everything about it. There is an express- ive and all inclusive word which fits the characters presented by Messrs. Raymond Massey and John Carradine to a T. Mr. Massey feels it incumbent upon him to dog the innocent tracks of Jon Hall, native swimmer, sailor, lover, and physical specimen extraordinary, Mr. Carradine taking a sadistic...
...outstanding contribution, I think, is Mr. Laughlin's story, "The River." The backnoyed theme of the Middle-Western boys with the vision of "a better, richer life far, far away" from Springfield, Wisconsin, is handled with maturity of perception and of style. The single incident of the story, where Carson and Craig pick up two girls in Paris, is deftly made the turning point in the action. The sense of drifting is given reality both by an expert use of detail, and by long idiomatic sentences, winding into patterns of thought, half speech, marked by the use of participles...
...with his Classmate Sam Warren prospered brilliantly. By the time he was married at 34 to Alice Goldmark, whose father, a political exile from Vienna, had emigrated in 1848, Louis Brandeis was both mature and financially secure enough to manifest the social consciousness that has since been the dominant theme of his thoughts and deeds...
...human administrative capacity has grave limits. In 1915, appearing before a Congressional committee with a new bill aimed at monopoly, he quoted a German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies." Hundreds of times and in hundreds of ways he has expressed the same theme- a theme which marks the enormous difference between his liberal thinking and that, for instance, which is exemplified by the New Deal...