Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Asia's babbling voices joined last week in a notable and noisy effort at unison. On their main theme, reaction against Western domination, Asians (they no longer wanted to be known as Asiatics) achieved fairly close harmony...
Another Imperialism? Into the discussions came a theme that a new white imperialism, "different and more subtle," was rising in Asia. After several such references, up rose handsome, jut-jawed Sirdar Kumar Jagjit Singh, an observer for the India League of America. He suspected that these "dark hints of a new imperialism" referred to the U.S., and "would the delegates please be less vague and name the country meant?" None...
...bleats about the social lacks of Harvard people might titillate the back country, but otherwise "George Apley" is a capsule version of a theme that requires more careful, lengthier treatment. A last glowing touch in achieved by Peggy Cummins, who plays the debutante Miss Apley aided by an Irish brogue that doesn't often grace Louisburg Square...
...theme of this spring training was summed up in one sentence by Manager "Muddy" Ruel of the St. Louis Browns: "It is more important to see how the youngsters are going to play than to win games down here." After almost five years in which big-league baseball had produced little new talent, the accent was on rookies. There was likely to be a dugout-full of new names-such as "Yogi" Berra, Bobby Brown, Johnny Van Cuyk, Ted Kluszewski and "Puddinhead" Jones-in the big leagues this year or next...
...this novel, 18 years of life on an Iowa farm are itemized with raw fidelity and strapping lyricism. Subtitled "a novel of faith in the earth," it is also a novel of bitterness over the gutting and misuse of the earth by first-and second-generation U.S. settlers. The theme is large, simple and an incitement to soil conservation. At times the treatment has an earthy swell and eloquence. But Author Feikema works his lesson so hard that before readers reach the end of the book, they will be worn...