Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first of eleven books on local industries-their growth, what they make, how they make it, etc. Schools have agreed to use them as supplementary texts. I.I.I, is now preparing a manual of jobs available for graduating seniors, to be followed up by talks by industrialists to plug the theme that local opportunities are "as good as any in the U.S." In the works for moppets (and their seniors): a 16-page comic book on free enterprise...
...described by the cast the play in a psychological study using Sartre's statement, "Hell is other people," as theme...
...military imperialism so thoroughly that a similar carnage could never come again. Plievier's main contribution was The Kaiser's Coolies, and after writing it, he fled into exile. Now, with an even more fearful war come & gone, 60-year-old Theodor Plievier has resumed his old theme song...
...English players emphasized the contrast between the gaiety and introspection, particularly in the first of the three works. A highly romantic reading of the slow movement sharply set-off the cheerful expression of the violin introducing the Russian theme of the last movement. The juxtaposition of the two moods is even clearer in the second quartet; an unusually long and searching adagio is followed by the rollicking humor of the jiggish last movement. Climaxing the whole series, the almost fugal finale of the third quartet presents complicated difficulties to the performers. Not without a little buzzing, the players carried...
...Pluribus Unum. No technical innovator, Author Cozzens demonstrates his theme by the popular "Grand Hotel" method of assembling hordes of people, all with singular points of view, in one place-a huge World War II airbase. in Florida. Some of them are elderly, Regular Army officers to whom the mechanics of war are as vital as the winning of it. Some are much too bogged down in personal miseries and prejudices to recognize the overriding claims of victory: others are far too intent on victory to show any tolerance for human weaknesses. In fact, as Author Cozzens shows, the marvel...