Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senators (both had led the fight to pass the Case Bill) had another identical theme: labor has too long regarded any legislation except that which is unmistakably pro-labor as hopelessly bad. But, Senator Ball chided the delegates, "We have been unable to get constructive suggestions from labor leaders . . . they have no suggestions to offer whatever...
...making. The Los Angeles school, it might be called, for its two principals, James M. Cain and Raymond Chandler, are residents of Los Angeles County. And it is against the background of Southern California that they both have set their tautly-wound, sense-shocking novels. The theme that runs throughout their work is common to both men: the tough people of this twentieth century world, the people with the inteness desire for possession, the ones who murder for money and kill for love, are the much-drooled-over "little people," the men and women who sell insurance and wait...
John Dewey's new book is a collection of his writings for the past twelve years, plus a new chapter summing them up. Scientific living is still his theme song, as it was in the 1900s...
...outline, the story resembles Thomas Mann's Death in Venice: an aging writer goes down to the Italian seaside to rest in the sun. Tabori takes this theme, twists it around to fit a modern situation and his own ends. The aging writer is Stefan Farkas, noted Hungarian dramatist. His train reaches San Fernando one day in the summer of 1943. He has been told that San Fernando will be "safe" for months to come. He wants a vacation and a rest. The war has made him nervous...
Threat of Stalemate. In developing this theme The Absolute Weapon's text refutes the rather silly title. The atom can and will be fitted into military and political strategy, like all other weapons. A surprise atom-bomb attack could make Pearl Harbor look like a mere raid, but continental areas such as the U.S. and Russia are too great for immediate knock-out blows. A surprised but still surviving nation with atomic stockpiles could in its turn destroy the aggressor's cities and industries. After the first heavy devastation, both sides would have to fight minus most...