Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberals' platform, Tory Leader Drew never found any major issue. But he rapped the government's aircraft policy, charging that the Canadian-built Canadair planes were unsafe. He attacked the government-controlled Canadian Broadcasting Corp. and the Liberals' monetary policy. George Drew's main theme was that the Liberals were stifling free enterprise and that Canada's third party, the socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), would choke it off completely...
...plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but as the story progresses, he becomes more and more attached to her; the movie's neatest trick is conveying with subtlety Jones' growing affection for his ill-gotten ward. The first night that Shorts stays with Jones, she asks him to sing her a Lullaby. Jones complies, singing the tune...
Slightly French (Columbia) is a tedious rehash of the old Pygmalion theme. This time the cultural spit & polish are applied to a low-life carnival dancer (Dorothy Lamour) by an egotistical Hollywood director (Don Ameche) who transforms her into a phony French film star...
Like almost all its predecessors, Two Worlds assembles the members of a family in an English country house around the turn of the century and sets them to betraying to one another their inexhaustible human capacity for loyalty and treachery, frankness and cant, courage and cowardice. Its theme, painfully learned by all concerned, is the old, grim and simple text: "Judge not, that ye be not judged...
David G. Aivaz '47 captured third prize, worth $100, for an essay on "Image and Theme in the Poetry of Dyland Thomas...