Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortnight Washington correspondents had been plagued by queries from editors and publishers back home. All queries began alike: "Is the story true that . . . ?" The stories also had one central theme: Franklin Roosevelt was on the verge of a collapse, physical, mental or both. He had, according to the tales roaring through the country in whispers, grown mentally irresponsible. Hadn't you heard that during a Press conference he had a fit of laughter, had to be hurriedly wheeled out of the room? Why, his intimates were taking the greatest care not to have him make a spectacle of himself...
Paul O'Higgins was a onetime Rivera assistant. He has taken for his theme the Peasant's Economic Struggle, showing in broad cartoon masses the peasant, his sad wife and child, his grain and his disastrous relations with the middlemen. Overhead O'Higgins has put a massive design of factories, cannon, two soldiers fighting to the death under the calm gaze of a fat overlord. Legend: "Against Imperialistic...
...largest markets, it is a community recreation centre for the city's poor. The area assigned to the nine muralists was 16,000 sq. ft., about 1,800 sq. ft. apiece, to be covered by the end of 1935. Each was permitted to pick his own theme, subject to esthetic supervision by Diego Rivera, topical supervision by the Federal Government's Civic Action Department. Sole theme limitation was that each must have something remotely to do with the market or the Socialistic ideology of Mexico's National Revolutionary Party or both...
Pretty, angry-mouthed Grace Greenwood, 27, undertook to slap the theme of Motiey on two walls of the main lobby. Her first panel takes money from mine to mint, shows Mexican laborers drilling, digging, trucking ore; smelters refining and casting the metal; and finally, a porcine bureaucrat receiving and counting the bars. Last week Grace Greenwood finished drawing the design on the second wall, taking money from mint to rich man's pocket...
...Federal prosecutor called it "unsuitable, immoral and lascivious, with adultery as its theme...