Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shakespeare's Henry V. As Shakesspeare wrote it, The Cronicle History of Henry the fift is an intensely masculine, simple, sanguine drama of kinghood and war. Its more eloquent theme is a young king's coming of age. Once an endearingly wild Prince of Wales, Henry V (at 28) had to prove his worthiness for the scepter by leading his army in war. He invaded France, England's longtime enemy. He captured Harfleur, then tried to withdraw his exhausted and vastly outnumbered army to Calais (see map). The French confronted him at Agincourt. In one of Shakespeare...
...British grew to love his gaunt figure. He talked to them in trains, buses, subways, and ministries, and reported shrewdly to the President-whom most of the world thought of as the real U.S. Ambassador to Britain. To Britain's leaders, Winant plugged away relentlessly at his great theme: a democratic postwar world...
...Inglis Lectureship in Secondary Education was founded in honor of Alexander Inglis, professor of Education from 1914 to 1924. In addition to the English Lecture, conference and several other speakers will be included in the meeting which started yesterday and will continue through tomorrow. The meeting's theme is "Society and the Atent...
...stimulate attendance at his church in San Francisco, he wrote a 50,000-word Biblical novel called The Emperor's Physician and read it, a chapter at a time, to his congregation. With the beginning of World War II and the growing audience for books with a Christian theme, Author Perkins resurrected the manuscript, rewrote and expanded it, got it published. The People's Book Club (operated by Sears, Roebuck) selected it for Christmas 1944, plugged its sales to nearly 250,000 copies...
Critic Wilson's purpose is to develop a subtle and ambitious theme of Evil in our times. His observations are not always adequate to his ultrasophisticated posture; hence the posture; sometimes looks a little self-deceived. But such civilized writing and observation are rare in the U.S. nowadays, and on its merits Memoirs of Hecate County is pretty certainly the best contemporary chronicle, so far, of its place and period. Evil is as vivid through the book as a bushful of snakes...