Word: themes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proclamation was delivered where it would do the most good, at the annual meeting of the archconservative Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association in Philadelphia. Ostensibly, Big Jim's theme was inflation. The best cure for it, he told the PMAsters, is a price rollback. No matter how unpleasant this medicine might be, "industry ought to set the example by taking the first dose." After all, said Big Jim, with record earnings industry can well afford the risk...
...Gioconda Smile" used a murder incident merely as vehicle to carry the usual Huxleyan theme that lives not lived on both the sensual and rational level fall short of fulfillment. As a result the characters were not rounded, but rather each represented a perversion from Huxley's "golden mean." To develop the movie out of such a story it became necessary to make al the characters just a bit more human than they had been originally. Thus the film lost some of the story's meaning as the murder plot became an end in itself...
...Soviet press dutifully tuned up on variations of the Zhdanov theme. Krokodil featured a cartoon showing the bronze horses atop the Bolshoi Theater's portico fleeing in all directions from the strains of Muradeli's opera, Great Friendship...
...play itself has already created considerable comment because of its audacious some would say-reworking of a theme ostensibly treated finally by Shakespeare. The author, Ari Ibn-Zahav, has altered and reinterpreted "The Merchant of Venice," keeping many of Shakespeare's characters and large sections of the plot...
Much of this is wonderful in its learning and in the visions that it evokes. A theme links it together, a masque of some sort, but it is never very clear, and if readers do not puzzle over it they will find Sacheverell Sitwell's essays independently interesting, regardless of the thread by which he links them together. His writing is for a world that is exhausted and convalescent; it has something of the quality of the touch of fingers to the eyelid to soothe a headache...