Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the Alumni will take time out for some barbershop quartet renditions and a few rounds of golf, the convention will take for its theme the problem of higher education in a free society. President Conant is scheduled to take a prominent role in the three days of discussion...
Second in the Harvard batting order is O. H. Mowrer, associate professor of Education. Professor Mowrer, who is also psychologist in charge of the University's Psycho-Educational Clinic, will consider the theme, "Partnerships in Marriage," the following week, Monday, May 24, at the same hour...
...Sons" is hardly escapist fare. Watching the defense of a man break down under the weight of his own guilt is more conducive to morbid fascination than to light-hearted pleasure. The players approach their task with all due reverence for its theme...
Morale and a Man's Head. Speaker after speaker took up this theme, lashed at "Mistakes, mistakes . . . Corrupt, lawless high officials have lined their pockets while the troops hunger, lose discipline and morale . . . They have transformed Manchuria into a hell...
...tried to get his competitors into a joint public-relations campaign to straighten out such misconceptions, but they refused. So five years ago he started his one-man campaign. In newspaper ads, he plugged the theme that "America's Fifth Freedom Is Free Enterprise," with cartoons and folksy parables discussing profits and wage rate-production relationships. Taylor tried the same trick with his annual reports, now thinks that in television he has found the best method...