Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Florida to investigate. Sutter messaged ahead: "As you realize, this is a highly confidential and personal matter, and in my opinion the fewer people cognizant the less embarrassing. It is alleged that in the neighborhood of $400,000 is involved." Falling in with Sutter's theme, Washington CAP headquarters ordered the Miami CAP: "Cease all investigation. Maintain security...
Manhattan critics drubbed Broken Date lustily. Its theme, said the New York Times's John Martin, "seems to be that in France sexe is a four-letter word." It seemed as good an explanation as the one offered by Date's creators at its premiere. Explained Composer Magne, 28: "It recalls my youth." Said Novelist Sagan, 22: "It recalls my youth...
...likened by many to the chorus in Greek tragedy. They represent normalcy in contrast to man. "My conclusions entirely support the theory that dogs have a saner family life than people," the author states. They do not mask their feelings and regiment their emotions. (For full treatment of this theme see Is Sex Necessary...
Back to a Lost Art. Most of the talking was done at an economic mobilization conference sponsored by the American Management Association in Manhattan and organized by Charles H. Percy, president of Bell & Howell Co. Conference theme: what can businessmen do to meet the challenge of the recession without leaning on tax cuts or other Government help? The principal way to fight the slump, said Percy in his prepared speech, is to "produce better values -and do it fast." His company moved up by a year the introduction of nine new products, reduced prices to attract customers, planned...
...Paris of cranks, little streets, odd churches, eccentric people. Bastide's ironic message seems to be: a disorder of the spirit, whether worldly, as in the case of the Russian, or religious, as in the case of the Swede, is equally damnable and pathetic. His theme is exile -external and internal -and those who are willing to follow a subtle course of sinuous prose will agree that he has justified his right to preface his book with the statement of the grand exile -Dostoevsky: "All that -all your foreign countries, your famous Europe -is only a delusion...