Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...native son in the White House. Harry Truman's appointed successor, hamhanded Senator Frank Briggs, will probably lose to neat, conservative, colorless James P. Kem, unless the Pendergast machine in Kansas City and the P.A.C. in St. Louis can roll up an overwhelming Democratic vote. Briggs's theme: loyalty to Truman. Kem's strategy: wham away at controls, left-wingers, Pendergastery...
Last fortnight Washington Post Editor Herbert Elliston returned to the U.S. and reported on what he had seen of the startling lack of U.S. progress in reviving Germany. The Post followed up with an editorial on the same theme...
...this normally unenthusiastic breast of mine was re-echoed a thousandfold by the audience's yell of acclamation at the end." W. A. Darlington of the Daily Telegraph thought: "He was never less than first rate, and again and again he touched magnificent." Other critics merely repeated this theme...
...choosing this theme Author Jackson has ruled out the chance of any such popular success as he had with his first novel. It is not a theme that even the brashest of moviemakers will rush to handle, and readers who found Don Birnam a sympathetic figure are not likely to have any such fellow feeling for John Grandin. Many readers who got a wallop out of Weekend will have to judge Valor on its literary merit alone, and they will find it medium-to-poor...
Writer-director-producer Dudley Nichols (The Informer, The Long Voyage Home) has oversimplified, but he has not shirked his job. The romantic love theme is subordinated to the hard business of dramatizing a scientific subject. He also got efficient performances out of Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger and the late Philip Merivale...