Word: themes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such fantastic sensationalism of theme invalidates any claim of the author's to represent life as it is lived, except, of course, in the paranoiac's dream world, which is admittedly the level of reality with which the Surrealist painters and writers are concerned. As it happens, most of the critical enthusiasm for Mr. Caldwell's work has been devoted less to defending his "realism" than to pointing out the beauties of his style. There is no denying the hypnotic effect which the rhythmic dialogue of the mental defectives in "Tobacco Road," in its stage version, exercises on the spectator...
...Orchestrate this theme, artificer-poet, Imagine...
...second movement is an elegy commemorating the death of the cricketer L. P. Hedges, the poet's friend; and the third, which consists of parodies and echoes of familiar styles, suggests the musical form of a theme and variations. Some of the parodies are especially good...
...have been during the past year, no act of a foreigner has more deeply touched the Japanese people than that of a young Western businessman, Yan C. Hock, 28, who passed an evening last winter with the courtesan, Izayoi, returned to pass another evening, ended by working out the theme of the opera Madame Butterfly in unexpected real-life fashion. As told by a Japanese reporter, events proceeded thus...
...Doubleday, Doran ($3). The circumstantial tale of a post-War German youth, on the dismal theme of incest and matricide; not pretty reading, but honestly written...