Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since 1928, when his America won a Musical America, magazine contest (with Koussevitzky and Stokowski among the judges), Bloch had had a notion that its broad, sweeping main theme was the best U.S. national-anthem music around -and specifically a lot better than The Star-Spangled Banner. But in 22 years, The Star-Spangled Banner had held its own and Bloch's America had been heard only a handful of times...
Turning to the organist, Composer Bloch directed him to thunder the final anthem theme, while the audience listened. Then he had the audience sing his words through twice-first sitting down, then standing...
...part of the grass-roots campaign to bring Main Street to Wall Street, the Stock Exchange itself was launching a $500,000 advertising campaign. Its theme was that those with small incomes should buy stocks in the same regular way they buy insurance. Said New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram: "An investor can buy any number of shares on the Stock Exchange-i, 10, 14, 20, or more-and such orders are welcomed by our member firms and given just as much attention as 100 shares...
...cast, and Tom Pedi as a fat, greedy hoodlum who bubbles "That's the ticket, that's the ticket," while the mob is planning some program of frightfulness against honest citizens. As the criss-crossed lovers, Lancaster and De Carlo steadily plug the reliable old theme of all-for-love-and-the-world-well-lost. Audiences are not very likely to be convinced that their particular world was much to lose...
...killed. A fourth, A Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...