Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S office boy in Tokyo has a most engaging hiss and helps his bosses by translating newspaper items. In Asahi he found this prizewinning, sixth-grade theme...
...Then came General of the Army George C. Marshall, to say less flamboyantly that "there appear to be no short cuts to a better world." Two nights and 39 speeches later, the 14th annual New York Herald Tribune Forum on Current Problems had done its duty by its solemn theme, "Responsibility of Victory." Four Cabinet members, statesmen of a half-dozen nations, scientists, generals and spokesmen for plain people-ranging from a German P.O.W. to Cartoonist Bill Mauldin-had had their...
...substance of the General Education proposals has already been passed upon by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, there remain many problems of putting the program into effect. Moreover, the specific item of the curtailment of the tutorial system has yet to be decided. These questions will be the theme of the mass meeting, which will culminate the efforts of the Administrative Board and the Undergraduate Organizational Committee to put the Report before the student body...
...them to him. But she had kept him wide awake with The Manatee. An acquaintance made a businesslike suggestion: hire a press agent to sell the Bruff product in a businesslike way. Her husband approved. She hired Hollywood's Russell Birdwell for $50,000 for two years. Chief theme of his publicity: Miss Bruff, a free and gifted soul, had escaped or been expelled from almost every school she had attended...
...script allows Miss Bergman to do very little except tensely beg her lover to remember his boyhood. By flexing his jaw muscles and narrowing his eyes, Peck does his best to register the fact that all is not well with him. But despite the drag of the psychoanalytical theme, Director Hitchcock's deft timing and sharp, imaginative camera work raise Spellbound well above the routine of Hollywood thrillers. Again & again he injects excitement into an individual scene with his manipulation of such trivia as a crack of light under a door, a glass of milk, or the sudden wailing...