Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before this stage was reached, however, the Prime Minister, still on his great theme of Nov. 14. declared: "Sir Herbert Samuel . . . asked, 'Why have an election now. when there is such a critical position in foreign affairs?' It was in trying to find an answer to the question that I made up my mind the other day on the precise date of the election. ... I saw last week that, as far as could be seen ahead . . . there was coming a lull in foreign affairs, and as far as I could see it would be perfectly safe to hold...
Concentrating on a theme of Americanism, the next issue of the Advocate will appear during the second week of November. This theme is to be treated without sentimentalism or ballyhoo, but merely to examine various points of view on nationalism...
...That they might find fault with its literary content is no worry of onetime Editor Hoffman, who conducts a correspondence course in writing from his home in Carmel, N. Y. Last week to the anniversary issue he contributed a stout defense of his oldtime magazine against literary critics. His theme...
...theme that saves Butterfidd 8 from being a squalid tale is the healthy, unfulfilled companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John...
...Methodists are given some tunes new to the hymnal. Against strong opposition, the commission voted to include Auld Lang Syne and the famed Irish Londonderry Air for hymns beginning It singeth low in every heart and Above the hills of time the Cross is gleaming. The broad, soaring principal theme of Jan Sibelius' tone poem Finlandia has been reharmonized, paired with a 16th Century lyric...