Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Paleontologist Gregory, 60, of Columbia University and Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History delivered the only public lecture at the National Academy of Sciences convention in Chicago, he again proved that a dramatic simplification of an old scientific idea makes good listening for laymen. His theme was "The Transformation of an Organic Design," and the design he referred to was a longtime favorite of Nature's, the "self-moving grappling bridge...
...spontaneous in their expression. They are, in a word, appreciations of a man as well as a genius. Without question, his students and associates find much of their admiration based upon the fact that Professor Whitehead teaches no dogma. They are invariably stimulated by his large and embracive theme that the great key to philosophy is individual thinking relating to the world of experience...
...Duncan sisters are funny -- no doubt about that, and a delightful little ninny called Imogene Coca helps considerably. Frances Williams, the featured lady, is presentable, but undistinguished. The review itself has a less central theme, if possible, than most; where the authors found their hodgepodge it is hard...
...Anthony Adverse" is of uneven power. For minutes it grips the audience in the spell of its theme, while in spots it is agonizingly slow and dull. The movie would improve fifty percent if three-quarters of an hour were lopped...
...movie. There is the tragic love of Anthony's mother, the cruel ambition of the Spaniard to gain the Bonnyfeather fortune, and the romance between Anthony and his wife which is ruined by accidents outside their control. They are side issues to the main theme, which is Anthony's ambtion to make his name known and respected and to found a strong family...