Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American imperialists." Others, like British Presslord Beaverbrook's Daily Express, have a different objection. They believe that their countries: 1) can recover through their own efforts from here on; 2) must avoid becoming "dependencies" of the U.S. Said a retailer near London, borrowing a Daily Express theme: "We were wrong in the first place to accept the [$3,750,000,000] loan. It made us live artificially, beyond our means, while you profited over there. Now we've got to begin fighting on our own feet." Nevertheless, among Europeans who have heard of the Marshall Plan...
Loneliness Is Suspect. Author Gorer's central theme is that Americans are haunted by a dread of loneliness and isolation: "The absence of doors in all but the most private parts of most houses, the wedged-open doors of offices and studies, the shared bedrooms in colleges and boarding houses, the innumerable clubs and fraternal and patriotic associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well...
Sacred & Profane. Mad Lord Orris welcomes poachers and bill collectors with an exquisite bow and regrets profusely that he has only rabbits to offer them. Even the puritanical mailman, who writes religious poetry, gets spring fever so badly that he puts his pen to a theme which he considers "profane"-his wife...
...combined with creative inspiration and boldness. The subject-the daily and lifelong effort of rural man as a part of nature and as a portion of eternity-is one of the grandest there is, and has inspired a long creative tradition. In that great line, Farrebique deals with its theme in terms which the theme cries out for-absolute realism...
...novel purported to be a serious treatment of the problem of marriage in America. The picture makes only a taken stab at this theme. Tracy solemnly remarks at several points that divorces are all to frequent, and a few brief scenes are tossed in to show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses...