Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shadow of Dumas père (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte-Cristo). In this big, revealing study, France's Andrè Maurois tries to put the matter in a different light. He sees three generations of the Dumas dynasty as three different expressions of a single theme: "For a whole century [they] played out, against a backcloth of France, the finest of all dramas-their life...
Novelist Soldati is thoroughly at home with his sensual theme. His book is a better story of the emotional conflicts of a pious and troubled boy than the classic account of the same situation in Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. With Irishman Joyce, what stands out authentically is a belief in damnation; with Italian Soldati, it is temptation that is real. Whether or not readers accept the possibility of eternal damnation, Soldati is utterly convincing about the existence of eternal woman...
Calm Focus. Shrewd and impenetrably affable, Dulles talked with calm realism. Let's get things in focus, was his theme. One and only one basic, unifying interest had brought members together: mutual defense against their Soviet Communist neighbor. Dulles argued that the U.S. could do more for the Baghdad nations by remaining outside the pact than by joining. The Baghdad Pact commits its members only to "cooperate for their security and defense." Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, Dulles pointed out, the U.S. is pledged to send its armed forces, on request, to the aid of any Middle East nation...
Saddlesore Cowboy-Minstrel Gene Autrey and his music publishers collected $250 in damages from a Houston nightclub, whose comic was forbidden henceforth to drawl a vulgar tune titled 01' Gene Artery, a parody of 01' Gene's own theme that also slightingly mentioned his favorite hoss, Champion...
Author Presser, 58, himself a Jew and a professor of history at Amsterdam University, lost his first wife in an extermination camp, lived in hiding in Holland until war's end. What he has written is not a horror novel, despite its horrible theme. It is, rather, a deeply moving story of the terror that lies beyond remorse for the man who fails himself by failing others...