Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polls to show him that times were tough. He politicked like mad. Boss Frank Hague of New Jersey dropped by, and so did ex-Price Boss Chester Bowles, who offered all his help. National Chairman Bob Hannegan talked strategy, then hopped off for Los Angeles to twang a campaign theme. One Hannegan chord: the G.O.P. is "holding the picket line in a strike of big business against the consumer...
...Next to sex, the most profitable theme for publishers of recent American novels has been...
...Completely ignoring the young love theme...
...final analysis seems to have gotten nowhere, the failure in impact is amply compensated by uproarious dialogue and a certain wackiness which can only be described as "Anita Loos." Tops in froth, Miss Loos drives her sharp-edged, relevant humor home with a vengeance. Whether a theme can be detected in the midst of it all is moot. You may not know what it is all about when the shooting stops, but you'll know you liked...
Author Jackson has a plausible clinical grasp of the excruciating predicament of these people, and he prepares his revelation with conscientious care. But the book is not remotely comparable to Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, a calm, classic, immensely artful treatment of a similar theme...