Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inglis Lecture will be given as part of the program of the fifty-sixth annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers Association, which is now being held under the auspices of the Graduate School of Education. The theme of this year's meeting is, "A United Nation Through United Schools...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 5 p.m., CBS). Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis, Beethoven's Sixth (Pastoral) Symphony. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy...
According to an old Arabian proverb, brought out of the Old World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
...theme of the book is that accepting the conventions of middle class society stifles the heart. If the stifling process is incomplete the heart may yet be revived to a realization that there is something more in life than maintaining one's position in the local circle...
...what Author Bates has to say on this age-old theme is neither novel nor especially interesting. Apart from its dramatic narrative, the book's impressive qualities are those of Bates's best short stories-a fine perceptiveness in matters of wind, weather and atmosphere, displayed in clean-cut, economical prose...