Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when he was called upon in 1949 to be Churchill's valet and provide some of these necessary things. Recollecting his three years of service with the grand old man, McGowan has written an ingratiating book, seemingly almost by inadvertence. It is the English story on the classic theme of master and man that has been exploited by everyone from Shakespeare to Wodehouse. But no Jeeves is McGowan, no Wooster Churchill...
This is a lighthearted book about a serious theme-the confusion that a first whiff of education can bring to primitive people. Jean-Marie Medza is a French Cameroons Negro who goes to college 40 miles from his native village, flunks his finals and returns home only to find himself saddled with a task for which college did not prepare him. His cousin's wife has run away to her father's tribe in the backwoods and Jean-Marie has been picked as just the right man to go and fetch her back. Off he bicycles into...
Eliot, after completing Murder in the Cathedral, was determined to write a verse play with a contemporary theme and a contemporary setting. The drawing-room setting he contrived was not only fitted for traditional moments of comedy, it made for eerie moments of contrast. The nobleman hero's return to his family, to confess to his own guilty crime while absent and then to smoke out the atmosphere of crime and guilt that haunted his childhood, is charged with ominous Aeschylean echoes. The Greek Furies themselves still hunt the criminal down, until he is able to convert an Orestes...
Although the entire orchestra displayed an amazing competency and ease throughout the piece, special honors must go to the wind section for their ensemble work and tonal consistency, particularly in the opening theme, which was quite lovely...
Coexistence with Russia will be the theme of a student conference to be held Friday and Saturday at the Harvard Epworth Memorial Church...