Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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European novelists who matured before the War have found one theme more inspiring than any other. This is the vision of European society driving innocently toward a catastrophe so vast and overwhelming that even the most daring pre-War imaginations could not visualize it. The theme of Jules Remains' Men of Good Will, it is also the dominant note in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years...
...named J. Frank Davis, a Boston newshawk who had been grievously crippled in an accident. Edgar Davis suggested that Frank Davis write a play, offered to back it. Result was The Ladder which opened on Broadway in October 1926. Edgar Davis produced it partly because he believed in its theme of reincarnation but chiefly because he wanted to help his friend. Critics lambasted the play, audiences dwindled to a mere handful. This inauspicious beginning cheered Backer Davis who remembered the sequel to his earlier failure. But The Ladder was never a success. After paying its expenses for two years, during...
Although Anne Morrow Lindbergh writes of romance and the reasons for the trip in a stilted, English-theme language, her accounts of the flight itself, of the people she met along the way, are matter-of-fact, good-natured, often amusing. Conscious of the patronizing attitude commonly felt about women who take part in masculine exploits, she resented it when female reporters asked her silly questions about clothing and lunches, was puzzled when the radio announcer, describing the takeoff, deliberately lied about the way she was dressed. She worked hard learning to operate the radio. Baffled by technical explanations...
Bandmaster Metz's rousing tune, in ragtime which was then becoming the rage, became the theme song of the Spanish-American War a dozen years later. Theodore Roosevelt, says Theodore Metz. took a baton and led Metz's band through A Hot Time. Also, with typical Roosevelt enthusiasm, the President of the U. S. exclaimed: "I'm proud to shake the hand of the man who wrote the song that stirred the nation...
...author, he hesitated about writing the story of his love affair, compromised by turning out a book of sketches the mature Maugham was to dismiss as "crude and gushing." Despite his impulse to try again, despite his deep love for Spain, he could never find a Spanish character or theme to satisfy him. He wanted to write a romantic historical novel, rejected the story of Ponce de León because Ponce de León had left Spain and journeyed where Author Maugham would not follow...