Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe this week the Patton legend was still growing, its newest a song composed by Americans liberated at the Ziegenhain Prison Camp. After the General's 6th Armored Division had rolled up and turned them loose, the Yanks set their theme song to the tune of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. It began...
...Negro art. The canvases were strongly flavored with expressionism and romanticism, but most had a primitive quality peculiarly their own. Painted in savage splashes of purple, red, black and brown, many contained writhing, weaving forms which suggested the rhythm of a voodoo ritual. Favorite subject matter: Negroes. Favorite theme: racial consciousness and antagonism. Some outstanding samples...
Satisfied that he was limbered up Mr. Durrance . . . broke into a major theme of astonishing virtuosity: an outboard motorboat is drifting in a rock-girt bay, with no other sounds than the slap of waves on the hull and the seething wind. Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether...
...success of such pictures as "My Friend Flicka," "Lassie Come Home," "Home in Indiana," and "Thunderhead" makes it apparent that Hollywood has rediscovered a gold mine in the old theme of a child's love for an animal. "National Velvet" is the latest in this pleasing series, and it pretty largely lives up to the high standards set by its predecessors...
...writing and its pointed advice to would-be writers that only the familiar makes good subject matter. This is something of an apology for the story's stark style, and it's certainly not a new idea. Aside from such personal irritations, however, there is an extremely compelling theme of little people trying to rise from their distress that the most unsociological person will not fail to see clearly, and admire...