Word: themes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...showing that rice, beans and other basic necessities of Brazilian life now cost twice what they did in Getulio's time. Getulio himself has made no move. Yet he is so widely discussed for the 1950 presidential elections that most political maneuvers in Brazil lately have had one theme: stop Getulio. To further that end by bolstering his own sagging prestige, President Eurico Caspar Dutra recently announced plans for a visit...
...done in the grand manner, and this detracts somewhat, particularly in the case of the oversized chorus which exceeds the stage capacity. The direction is much better than the usual variety, however, in spite of some sloppy moments. In the second scene of the first act, a storm theme appears whenever the door of the pub is opened. Unfortunately, the door and the orchestra seldom coincide. With the exception of Grimes' hut, the sets are realistic and firm--two uncommon advantages...
...Kremlin had set the propaganda theme, harshly repeated last week over Radio Moscow, in a White Paper issued last January by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Verbose, bristling, heavy-footed with dialectical cliches, this document rejected all moves toward Western union, from last year's Brussels treaty to the looming North Atlantic alliance, as inspired by "warmongers," designed to "undermine" U.N. and "isolate" the U.S.S.R.: "The ruling circles of the United States and Great Britain have adopted an openly aggressive political course the final aim of which is to establish forcibly Anglo-American domination the world over...
...Salome" contains many construction and orchestration devices which are seldom found in the earlier Italian operas. For example, Strauss makes some use of the "leitmotif," (a melody with a specific connotation) which is so conspicuous in Wagner's operas. One particularly striking example is the theme which usually accompanies the religious statements of Jokanaan, and which later appears greatly distorted, after his decapitation. Another use of this device, combined with an intentional and effectively weird orchestration is found in Salome's several repetitions of the phrase "give me the head of Jokanaan...
...Intruder in the Dust, a novel about an attempted lynching. Twentieth Century-Fox was preparing Pinky, a story about miscegenation, and had in reserve No Way Out, a tale of a Negro intern. In New England, Louis de Rochement, the first to announce a project on the Negro theme, was shooting for Film Classics, Inc. a picture called Lost Boundaries, about Negroes who pass for whites...