Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tournament every year and plays by ear on his $75,000 organ, President Thomas Atterbury McGinley of Duff-Norton Manufacturing Co. inaugurated a weekly nationwide organ and variety radio program to advertise the jacks he makes for heavy industry. Title: "The House That Jacks Built." Mr. McGinley composed the theme song, At Sunset. Mrs. McGinley wrote the lyrics...
...voluntary basis, and is especially directed toward concentrators in fields other than American history, literature, or philosophy. Its goal is the breaking open of the hard, self-sufficient nuggets of specialized knowledge, and correlating them with the main streams of life. The thought is a variation on a familiar theme; the chord has been struck by President Conant time and time again. It is, today, most concretely expressed in the University Professorships which require men without pigeon-holed ideas but with great synthesizing powers...
There is no denying the fact of specialization and its progressive intensity. But there is likewise no denying its miring effect on the intellect and the crusty narrow insolence of the specialist who may know his field but little else. The theme is all-pervading, whether the man be a worker turning one bolt on a factory belt or a student of history endlessly annotating the private life of Napoleon...
...well known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet Player (104 pages), no less surprised by its ambiguous, unWellsian message...
...Great O'Malley" is a stupid, run-of-the-mill picture which divides its time between half-hearted humor and blatant sentimentality. The theme is old, yet one that can be convincing if it is well done. This time it is not particularly well done...