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Word: themes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nights when she doesn't feel like it, the crowd often chants a fugue-like "We want Minnie!" Her major theme for 1945 has been "those naughty rain clouds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Stormy Weather | 8/20/1945 | See Source »

...words "Free Society" are not included in the title for mere euphony. Throughout its 267 pages the document returns again & again to the theme that democracy is nothing but an unworkable, confusing dream unless its citizens share a set of fundamental traditions and premises. Their perpetuation, argues Harvard's committee, is education's prime responsibility. And in meeting this responsibility, the committee finds that U.S. education has been dangerously delinquent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard Asks a Question | 8/13/1945 | See Source »

Unconditional surrender-the victory theme of the U.S. and her Allies since 1943-was replaced last week by a more daring formula for ending the war with Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Attention, Tokyo! | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

This book is his effort to carry out the resolution he made in Athens-to survive and speak out. It is a damning document. Sometimes its sodden weight of human malevolence, its recurrent three-note theme of jailed, tried, shot, is all but unbearable. One little story, a tiny detail of suffering, could stand for the whole tragedy that it highlights. Marshal Tukhachevsky's twelve-year-old daughter was not informed that he had been liquidated overnight. But when she got to school the next day, the other children shouted abuse at her and refused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Damning Document | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...ring. Göring got Christ and the Adulteress in a trade for 173 paintings. One revealing way in which Master-Painter Van Meegeren overshot the mark was by producing so many Vermeers on religious subjects; of all the genuine Vermeers known, the only one that is religious in theme is the Edinburgh National Gallery's Christ with Mary and Martha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Masterpieces Only | 7/30/1945 | See Source »

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