Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When the mayor of Omaha tried to censor some profanity from the Lunt-Fontanne production of Idiot's Delight, Oxnam got him to drop the attempt, declaring: "Censorship is more dangerous than an occasional realistic line. If the mayor decides to remain in politics, may I suggest a theme song for his coming campaign: 'Every little Damma must be taken from our drama.' Censorship is, in fact, 'Idiot's Delight...
...chief contribution that the Mexican muralists (Orozco, Siqueiros and Rivera) made to modern art, Chariot thinks, was in emphasizing "communal" painting, simple and clear in theme, instead of individual expression. "Perhaps," he says, "Mexico will point Europe back to the forgotten way." In Colorado, Charlot has put his own students to work on a gigantic fresco of the fall of Jericho, to "keep them, out of mischief for months at a time, and help them understand that teamwork is important and that originality is not all-important...
Contemplation v. Fishing. Chariot's own work, nonetheless, is strikingly original. His new paintings were mostly religious in theme, though they transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...
...Date with Judy (MGM) features a song called Strictly on the Corny Side, which might serve as the movie's theme song. Date has a few moments of appealing teen-age humor, but most of it is overcomplicated plot about lovestruck adolescents and their immature parents. The juveniles (Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Scotty Beckett, Robert Stack) may be forgiven for acting like ambitious hams in a high-school play, but the hardened adult "troupers (Wallace Beery, Leon Ames, Carmen Miranda) also suffer repeated attacks of squirming coyness. Most of the cast, too, is larded over with a fiery...
Faith by Works. This week the council got down to specific discussion of its general theme, "Man's Disorder and God's Design." If the churches can pull well together, they may reduce the disorder and implement the design. In a speech for delivery at Amsterdam on Aug. 24, Presbyterian Layman (and Republican Statesman) John Foster Dulles put the problem...