Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milhaud's "Saudades do Brazil" filled the gap between the two chief pieces on the program as enjoyable and amusing selections. They were followed by the longest work of the concert, Brahms' "Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel." To this listener the sum of the component parts presents a rather uneven collection of interesting and dull music, chief objection to which lies in the fact that the peaks and lows arrive with such regularity that one finds himself awaiting what Pope called "The sure return of still expected rhymes." Fortunately, there is a Fugue of romantic exuberance...
Boston baseball fans worried about Ted Williams' appendix. Bewildered Nebraskans found themselves caught up in the hottest political campaign to date (see Republicans). In Denver, a young secretary sighed a variation on an old theme: "I'm afraid those prices are going to stay up in the clouds forever...
Palsan (Mayer-Burstyn) links together half a dozen short stones, each with different characters, and ranges from Sicily to the River Po. At its best, it beats any other movie the Italians have made. Its unity is in its theme: the relationships between men at war (chiefly U.S. soldiers) and the men & women native to the battleground. Paisan (rough G.I. translation: "bud") was directed by Roberto Rossellini, who made the famed Open City...
Limited Help. Premier Alcide de Gasperi, campaigning (by airplane) up & down Italy, left no doubt that Rome's show of force was no empty gesture. With unexpected vigor, he exhorted Italians not to let themselves be scared away from the polls by Communist rough stuff. His theme: either all will vote freely, or none will vote at all. Shivering in a chill spring wind that swept across the ruins of Monte Cassino, he cried: "Form a bulwark! . . . Defend Italy. . . . Vote for Italy. . . ." In Sardinia, before stocking-capped old peasants and natty coal miners fresh from their showers, he said...
Behind the turnout there was more than vernal interest in a vernal theme; there was also the Muscovites' incessant quest for the latest twist of the Communist Party's line...