Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that specie known as "impatient liberalists"--the specie which continually bemoans the "slowness and impracticality" of the amending process. In beautiful logic, Professor Corwin proceeded from step to step, building up a magnificent case against the propriety of the Supreme Court's powers, and then abruptly deserted his theme. Instead of forcing the inevitable issue, instead of determining then and there in whom lies ultimate authority and getting it over with, he slid all the way down the bannister again and perched beside Mr. Roosevelt's policy of "expediency". In the liberal camp there is great distrust of the amending...
...solution of Tide Rising's problem is melodramatic rather than sociologically practical, no fault can be found with Jim's bewildered but honest theme: "I don't know the answers to all these questions. Maybe nobody knows. But I do know they can't be settled by strikes and riots and civil...
Among the year's exhibitions should be noted the unusual "Style and Technique." Planned, arranged, and fully catalogued by the students in Professor Sach's course on Museum Work and Problems, from paintings, drawings, mosaics, and other material, it made an impressive demonstration of its theme as applied to western European painting. But the most notable exhibition in initiative, size and public interest--in fact the popular event of the last three years--was the Work of Paul Gauguin, including both paintings and prints. It was arranged by the newly formed Boston Chapter of the Museum of Modern Art, under...
Watson on Norris Sirs: If the author of the eulogy of Senator Norris that appeared in TIME, Jan. n, had examined all of the competent evidence readily available for his theme, he might have discovered that the Senator's insurgency was prompted by some-thing else than unadulterated political virtue...
...cinema appearance together-is considerably less than that. Nonetheless, changed, abbreviated and tautened to suit the tastes of the U. S. cinema audience, it remains a dark and ferociously exciting melodrama, well worthy of comparison with Director Ford's 1935 contribution to the same subject, The Informer. Theme of the 0'Casey version of the play is the tragic muddleheadedness of the revolutionists, the Irish romanticism that made their rebellion fizzle off in ranting, saloon fights and ill-timed heroics. In RKO's The Plough and the Stars the theme is the considerably less specialized...