Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scenery, for example, is exceptionally amateurish and crude. Yet the play at times attains so high a pitch of intensity that the "props" are of no importance whatsoever. More important as an obstacle to total absorption in the theme are the constant and lengthy breaks between scenes--and there are twelve of them--during which a shrill W. P. A. orchestra performs wretchedly. This reviewer, for one, would infinitely prefer complete silence and an undisturbed opportunity to develop the progression of thoughts induced by the previous scenes...
Outbreaks of adolescence have never been a rarity at Yale, but the recital given by the Yale News early this week, when it pulled off the cloak of non-partisanship and announced itself for Roosevelt, was certainly the theme song of little boys reveling in their political coming...
...office when it feels that the times are prosperous and believes they will remain so. It was by that rule that Calvin Coolidge shaped his campaign in 1924, that Herbert Hoover made "permanent prosperity" with a chicken in every pot and two cars in every garage the major theme of his campaign in 1928. Last week it became apparent that Franklin Roosevelt was waging a campaign for re-election which at bottom was exactly the same as the Hoover campaign of 1928. In the White House, President Roosevelt might appeal to citizens' minds and hearts with lofty ideals...
...citizens got first choice of auditorium seats to hear Nominee Roosevelt tell how the New Deal had restored Prosperity to Youth, praise NYA and CCC. In St. Louis, dedication of an unfinished Soldiers' Memorial diverted him momentarily to Peace, but in Chicago he swung back to his main theme in a speech addressed to his stanchest critics...
...smartchart, The New Yorker, demonstrated that sound fact this year when, just for fun, it printed two political cartoons. They proved among the most effective of the campaign. One, by slim, modest William G. Crawford, who signs himself Galbraith, gave a new twist to the young mistress-old lover theme. The other, by famed Peter Arno, capitalized the currently popular pastime of attending newsreel theatres for the pleasure of cheering one's Presidential favorite, hissing his opponent...