Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wherever he goes, whenever he speaks, he returns to his theme: world peace through world...
...slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns, the second movement was complex and agitated, waltzlike and melodic, with muted violins and then muted trumpets repeating the soloist's refrainlike theme. The third movement opened with rich orchestral tone clusters, built to a brilliantly frenzied solo violin flight near the close. The 700 concertgoers called Conductor Enrique Jordá and Soloist Gross back for half a dozen bows, twice drew Imbrie from his seat in the audience...
...speech in behalf of his program. Before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, Ike knocked down each of Carl Vinson's objections without mentioning the objector. "The purpose is clear," he said. "It is safety with solvency. The country is entitled to both." His double-barreled theme: "billions for defense; not one cent for heedless waste" and "unity-unity in strategic planning, unity in military command, unity in our fighting forces in combat units...
...travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist-won him the youthful nickname of Jacques I'Aztec; they also convinced him of the justice of South American outcries about U.S. "dollar imperialism," gave birth to the anti-Americanism that has been the one consistent theme of his political career...
...writer is whether he can find words for the things that are too terrible for words. Denmark's Karl Bjarnhof, 60, passes the test brilliantly in The Stars Grow Pale, the sensitive story of a boy slowly going blind. In Author Bjarnhof's hands, a theme that might have been merely harrowing or touching takes on the larger complexities of a boy's awakening sensibilities in a small provincial town amid a home life both flintily pious and grindingly poor. What brands the young hero's soul is not the iron of personal bitterness...