Word: themes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Exchange; got through the Great Depression with a pleasant bit of comedy about peddling vacuum cleaners; began to recoup tidily in & about the New York World's Fair; and invincibly began discussing their next move-back-to-the-land-after they saw their sons off to war. The theme of the film, as Harold Pierson states it, appears to be that this is a country where you don't get shot for dreaming...
...Long Beach, N.Y. soldiers, both strangers to Tin Pan Alley : Corporal Bert Gold, 27, onetime Manhattan movie-theater manager, now at Dale Mabry Field, Fla., and Lieut. Ken Hart, an ex-New York Times correspondent with the A.A.F. in Panama. Composer Gold confesses: "I banged out the theme with one finger and we called in a professional to do the arrangement. He was the man with the education and the man who got the $5." Technically, he characterizes his work as "a beat-up, old-fashioned style, spontaneous-sounding ballad...
Hamilton's idea--the common theme of a man committing crimes he cannot remember afterward--has been deprived of the psychiatric simplicity which was its saving grace...
...Cronin had very obviously not read "Going My Way" when he wrote "Keys of the Kingdom," but many of the Barry Fitzgerald touches are presented here by Edmund Gwynn. The novel, like all of Cronin's, has a consistent theme of human aspiration and courage with big does of excitement thrown in. It is a tear-jerker, but it is not unrelieved by lighter moments...
...Younger Generation. The theme of Great Son seems to be that the old generation-Vaughan's-has been imperceptibly supplanted by a young and vastly different one. And there is nothing, the older generation decides, that can be done about it. The younger generation is represented by Mike Melendy, Vaughan's grandson. "Mother's mixed up," he says. "So's Dad. I'm demi...