Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Author Adamic offered his second novel in which his family did not er.ter directly, but for which intense and frustrated family feeling still provided the guiding theme. A 468-page chronicle that begins 'strongly, drifts to an unconvincing conclusion, Cradle of Life belongs in the ran!: of those books that are interesting for the facts they give on unfamiliar environments, but are made tedious by hackneyed and romantic plots. Louis Adamic's interesting facts include descriptions of the perils faced by Balkan bastards. In pre-War Croatia these waifs, called fachooks, were commonly placed in peasant...
...rich girl, Kit (Ann Sothern), who tries to force her father to let her marry a handsome bounder by pretending to be in love with a penniless college boy, Pete (Gene Raymond), whom she pays to masquerade as an objectionable French count. Sole variation on this time-honored theme is that Pete is also a crooner seeking a job in radio. This gives him opportunity to sing several pleasant new melodies (Cabin on the Hill-tot), Let's Make A Wish, My Heart Wants to Dance...
...Thus the theme of the celebration has not been the greatness of Harvard's long history, but the advance of human knowledge. Degrees are to be conferred only upon scholars now actively engaged in advancing knowledge. The funds which are being raised to mark the anniversary will be devoted wholly to learning: to establishing professorships and national scholarships for students...
Chapter by chapter and sentence by sentence Author Coyle tried his composition out on a Maine fisherman and the fisherman's wife. Result: Uncommon Sense. Further result: 50,000 copies have been ordered by the Democratic National Committee. Theme of Uncommon Sense: "Saving for a rainy day only makes it rain." With lucid plausibility David Cushman Coyle expounds technological unemployment, the arrival of an economy of plenty, the advantages of economic nationalism, the congenital wickedness of high finance. The blame for Depression he places on men who invest part of their income instead of spending it. His solution...
...heretofore been manifest only in arguments between patrons and ushers about smoking in the gallery, audiences were astounded to hear a well-organized claque applauding whenever Gary Cooper made his appearance. The applause subsided, however, when it became apparent that, despite the presence of a proletarian hero, the real theme was not Class War but True Love...