Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cover this week is the fifth bull. (The first four were drawn by Artist Boris Chaliapin; this week's is the work of Boris Artzybasheff.) The theme of this Year-End Review is that the U.S. now has a new kind of stock market and a new kind of economy, to which many of the classical rules of economics no longer apply...
...hate campaign by accusing Chinese Nationalists of using poison-gas shells. By loudspeakers and leaflet shells the Communists offered the Quemoy garrison attractive surrender terms; by letters routed through Hong Kong, they offered top Nationalists big bribes if they would desert. At the same time they beat on the theme that with the U.S. elections due on Nov. 4, there could be no support in the U.S. for helping Nationalist President Chiang Kaishek. But as the U.S. position held firm, and as the Red China military bogged down, the Communists shifted to a new line. The Russians said they...
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. A comedy of horrors whose aberrant love theme and brilliant writing make it a kind of fictional black valentine...
Organist & Theme. The result of Picasso's labors was a huge canvas done all in greys and a covey of brilliantly colored smaller paintings in which he explored details of specific figures. Last week critics and public got a first glimpse of them in reproduction, with the publication in Paris of a limited edition (to be published in the United States this spring...
...MAGIC BARREL, by Bernard Malamud. A fine collection of short stories of which only two or three fail to click. They are strung on the theme that the good one man does to another forever enslaves the donor to the fate of the receiver. Most of the characters are Jewish, some of the developments are fantastic, and even the most commonplace of Malamud's yarns has an air of accidental fantasy...