Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred and twenty-five students from major eastern colleges attended the thirteenth annual Harvard-Yale-Princeton Colloquium held at the University over the weekend. Theme of the meeting was "Jewish Life as Reflected in Modern Jewish Literature...
...theme of the Carnival was "the Good Ol' Days"--the Roaring Twenties--which the Daily Dartmouth described as "a mad age of loud parties and wild dances and much beverage." This mad age was in evidence all over the campus, but somehow ol' mad spirit was not up to par. College students of the "beat" fifties are not completely satisfied to exuberate wildly for 36 hours, doing nothing but dance ... and drink ... and laugh loudly. Yet this discontent is buried under the revelry and shows itself only on Sunday night during bull sessions over dirty glasses and broken bottles...
Overtones of the Oedipus complex are subtly woven into the main theme. Mother love is a distraction on the path to perfection...
Together the details of the scroll on the following pages reproduce about two-thirds of its 10-ft. length. It begins with a somber, gonglike flourish of pines. The long winding advance of the invading army is the main theme, announced by a menacing rush of pennants out of the mist. The peasant at the bridge is a contrasting grace note of peace. High above him the army has found a pass into southern lands, and now, serpentlike, it descends to the river. For a time its triumphal progress fades behind the soft, pine-muffled bulk of an island; then...
...amusing and more than half-convincing theme of Author Durrell's book seems to be that, in certain vital respects, Marxism has not altered the Balkans from the dear old musical-comedy days, when their wars were fought by Chocolate Soldiers and their diplomats were outmaneuvered by Merry Widows...