Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye, some home-grown harridans, some international jewel thieves, and some elegantly kidded daydreams (TIME...
...stuck around ... I met members of many of the delegations and I found them a particularly uninteresting lot, this quality springing from their calcified mental attitudes and "canned" arguments. The members of the American delegation whom I met were especially depressing. One sweet young thing continually harped on the theme that most of the people in America didn't know what they were doing when they fought against Communism, that they were just "unwitting tools of reaction." She was sincere I think, but I was quite unable to impress her with the fact that she herself was the tool...
Boomerang achieved a physical and moral portrait of an entire community. Kiss of Death, working in a darker, narrower field, among the criminals and policemen of a great city, lacks the older picture's richness of theme and its warmth, variety and brilliance. But in its own way it, too, is a clean knockout. It is also something new and welcome in U.S. crime movies. None of its criminals is glamorous, nor does anyone piously point out that crime does not pay. Nobody has to. The whole picture amply demonstrates the fact...
...Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Variations on a theme by James Thurber, featuring Danny Kaye, some home-grown harridans, some international jewel thieves, and some elegantly kidded daydreams TIME...
...this theme, Holbrook Jackson, eminent British bibliophile, essayist and editor, begins a leisurely but purposeful wandering through the land of literature. He comments widely on the aims, techniques, and inner lives of writers from Horace to Hemingway, trying always to get behind the props and wings of the literary stage...