Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what little there was- knew that they had been beaten before they started. They had no apparent strategy for concerted attack. But the Charter's proponents did. That strategy was: accentuate the negative. What the Charter would not do, rather than what it might hopefully accomplish, was their theme. Carefully and objectively, white-suited Chairman Tom Connally and Senator Arthur Vandenberg explained the Charter would not abridge U.S. sovereignty; it would not put war-won Pacific islands under international trusteeship; it would not impose some postwar schemes of disarmament upon the U.S. without U.S. approval; it would...
What brought the foreigners to South Africa was the discovery of the world's richest diamond and gold fields. What the new men and the new mines meant to South Africa is the theme of Stuart Cloete's book...
Soldier v. Non-Resister. Lord Wavell was the latest scion of a long line of soldiers. The name Wavell (spelled in 60 different ways) runs like a minor but recurring theme through a thousand years of British history. It begins with William de Vauville, a Norman kinsman of the Baron de Briquebec, who came to England with William the Conqueror. A De Vauville fought in the Crusades over the same Near East deserts where his famed descendant was to fight five centuries later. Three Wavells (the first in 1478) were Mayors of Winchester. Of a 17th Century Richard Wavell, preacher...
...theme of Frogner Park is nothing less than the birth, life and death of man. There are no monumental mementos of captains, kings and conquerors in the Vigeland cast of characters-just plain men, women & children. Massive males stagger under the weight of a heavy fountain-bowl; chubby children sport in & out of stone tree branches. A bridge over a pool bears 58 bronze figures of rugged toilers. At one corner of the bridge is a 20-ft. dragon clutching a reluctant woman whose bowed face, closely examined, reveals smiling pleasure. Topping the park is a 56-ft. white granite...
...Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show off." She was pretty scornful of the show's rag-to-riches theme: "It's not the truth. . . . There was always enough money for Georgie's lessons. Poppa had twelve restaurants. But [the film] is clean . . . you can take the children...