Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest bosses -the Steelworkers' Phil Murray, Auto Workers' Walter Reuther and Electrical Workers' Albert Fitzgerald-met in Pittsburgh last week to set a common bargaining policy, they exuded sweet reasonableness. Only a year ago, all three of them had gone out on defiant strike. Now the theme in Big Labor was peace-at almost any price...
Phil Murray stated the theme in his thick-carpeted, 15th-floor office, seated behind his glistening walnut desk. (Big Labor's offices are very like Big Business': the United Steelworkers of America have almost a million members.) Said Murray, the C.I.O. must apply the rule of reason to its demands. He devoutly hoped for a peaceful outcome next month...
Birth of the Soul. The theme of the greatest music is always the birth of the soul. Words can describe, painting can suggest, but music alone enables the listener to participate, beyond conscious thought, in this act. Beethoven's Violin Concerto is a work secular beyond question. But when, in the first movement, the simple theme subtly changes, the mind is lifted and rent-not because the strings have zipped to another key, but by a tone of divinity conveyed through the composer's growing deafness by an inspiration inexplicable to the mind. The spirituals are perhaps...
Only eight copies of Cobban's "Dictatorship" were available for take-home purposes to 986 Government students, many of whom have not yet written a required theme on the book, due after vacation. Miss Louise Rodgers, Union Librarian, announced that there were 16 copies earlier in the week eight having recently disappeared...
...Theme: stomach and intestinal cancer now kill some 80,000 Americans each year, account for 45% of cancer deaths...