Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McElroy, backed by "the best intelligence there is," rose to the challenge. With General Nathan Twining, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, McElroy went over to the Capitol to set the facts before the Senate Armed Services Committee, chaired by Georgia's Richard Russell. McElroy's theme: There is no missile gap. Points...
...annual reading of the U.S. economy, the National Industrial Conference Board last week assembled business leaders at "Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Their theme: "Recovery: how strong, how long?" Their conclusion: recovery should continue well into 1959. Even as they met, there were indications that while some parts of the economy have stopped to catch their breath, others continued to spring along in a sort of relay race...
...words are confusing. Even more so in definitions. One freshman was asked to define blank verse. Blank verse, he wrote, was "verse in prose civilized like we talk." And there was also that wonderful metaphor found in Gen Ed A theme on the drafting of athletes: "The cream of baseball was being poured into Uncle Sam's uniform...
...perhaps the principal moral theme is the story of Miss Bacall. The Puritanical bent, the Horatio Alger ambition of these three women is given a philosophic basis in Miss Bacall's history. The denouement of her experience can only be classified as Calvinistic: despite all our efforts, we can only obtain Paradise through Grace...
Novelist John Updike's literary voice is low and gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...