Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge I resent is contained by implication in your phrase, "the 'What I Did This Summer' themes of English A." The implication amounts to saying that English A invites trivial papers on trivial subjects. This, of course, is directly contrary to the policy which I have done my utmost to urge both upon the instructing staff and, whenever I have had an opportunity, on students in the course. I am responsible for the slogan, "The unforgivable theme is the theme without a subject." It is perfectly true that we usually begin the year with one or more assignments asking...
...most, America sounded un-Blochian: a muddied mixture of Indian tom-toms, Pop! Goes the Weasel, anvils (the industrial age), automobile horns and telephone bells, with his main theme bobbing up here & there. When the grand finale finally came, the audience rose to its feet and roared out the anthem-2,300 voices plus a full orchestra and a booming pipe organ...
Chrysler planned to display the De Soto this week, the Chrysler next week, and the Plymouth the week after. All resembled the Dodge in general body lines. Chrysler was plugging the theme that its cars were more comfortable, and easier to handle. They were, according to the pros pectus: "Lower outside, higher inside-shorter outside, longer inside-narrower outside, wider inside...
Heads v. Walls. In Point of No Return, readers will find the most skillful elaboration of the typical Marquand novel theme. Charley Gray, the boy from Spruce Street, does well enough in life, but there are some things he cannot attain when he most wants to, some things he can never attain. He cannot close the gap between Spruce Street and aristocratic Johnson Street in his boyhood town of Clyde, Mass, (for which, perhaps, read Newburyport). Jessica Lovell lived on Johnson Street and was in love with Charley Gray, but it was clear from the start that snobbery wouldn...
...Stressed the "peace is possible" theme between East and West...