Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young, handsome, Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, British-born leader of the Germans abroad, arrogantly keynoted the theme of the rally: "A German always and everywhere remains a German and nothing but a German and thereby a National Socialist...
...former Dean of Exeter Cathedral, Cathedral Close, a first novel which up to then had won only critics' praise, leaped suddenly into the best-seller class. The reason for this sudden popularity was a curiosity to find out how much truth lay behind the scandal which forms the theme of the story, and if the scandal occurred at Exeter. U. S. readers, while immune to this news interest, will still rate Cathedral Close a competent, well-characterized story giving a vivid authentic picture of an environment little less unique than English royalty...
...Sculptor Epstein, not long after he settled in London, received his first big commission through the kind offices of Etcher Muirhead Bone: 18 colossal figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...mixing fury and farce Director Whale imperils Author Remarque's poignant theme, but the screen play possesses intense, impressive street scenes. And for a few moments The Road Back illumines a grim War-wrecked civilization, lighting up in a final flash the reawakening of German military mania...
...solemn, you-may-be-next propaganda of psychiatry has pretty well trained the public, the hard-boiled included, not to make jokes about the insane. The theme of A Mind Mislaid is that the public has been overtrained, now takes mental illness much too seriously. A nervous breakdown, says 75-year-old Author Brown, is no worse than typhoid fever or double pneumonia. In the genial, conversational vein of his entertaining miscellanies of 19th Century New York history he now offers a relaxing account of his own three-year stay in famed Bloomingdale Hospital to prove the point...