Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Theme. Mental illness is no novel subject for the movies. Hollywood has long since taken note of modern man's discovery, and worship, of the subconscious-that obscure force which has become more fashionable than God's or man's will as an explanation of all human acts. Various types of mental sickness (amnesia, etc.) have been used and used again as springboards for psychological thrillers. In fact, the theme has become so familiar that a relatively new visual idiom has been worn down into a bag of movie cliches (the close-up of the vague...
That is the shocking theme of The Snake...
...main theme ... is 'the world's disorder and God's design.' May I begin by asking whether we must not deal with this theme, as a whole and in all its aspects, in reverse order? It is written, we should first seek God's Kingdom and His righteousness, so that all we need in relation to the world's disorder may be added unto us. Must we not take this order of topics seriously...
...American innocent all abroad in Europe's worldliness has been a favorite theme of novelists. It is a handy device for making subtle discriminations between the morals & manners of different worlds...
...first novel, Martha Bacon has given this theme a modern twist. While Henry James sometimes saw American innocence as a fresh and gracious stimulant to overcultivated Europe, kiss Bacon deals with a situation in which the irresponsibility of Americans causes a tragedy for Europeans...