Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...followed him up another staircase to a second studio. . . . 'You might like to see these,' he said, bringing [out] a folio of drawings. . . . All variations on the same theme: a young man asleep whom a girl is intently watching...
Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Haydn began the second part of the program. Then the incredible happened...
...know why a play, or a novel or a poem or a painting, is called whatever it's called. There's no mystery in this connection about "Over Twenty-One." It's about a 39-year old newspaper editor in a Florida Army training camp, and a recurring theme, or plaint, is built around the fiotsam that a man "can't absorb anything after he's passed...
Provided with a theme of exceptional realism and emotional intensity, the writers and directors have spent their efforts in futile attempts to add extraneous humor and pathos to the film...
...Communist attack on me in a recent Soviet publication and also over the Moscow radio -a bit of "Soviet caterwauling" (to use your phrase) the justification for which is "hard to guess" (TIME, March 26). The "caterwauling" tries to identify me as an "imperialist." In support of this ridiculous theme, it charges me with wanting the kind of world unity "which Jonah enjoyed when he was swallowed by the whale." Yes; I used that phrase in my Senate speech of last Jan. 10. How did I use it? I said: "We accept no conception that our contribution to unity must...