Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which the Count de Courvallon (played by Chevalier) tries to make a man of his son. His son, the youngest member of the French Academy ("poor boy," murmurs his father) is a young entomologist whose chief goal in life is the capture of Rameses, the rare pink caterpillar. The theme of most of the jokes is a statement made by the Count to his son: "Girls are so much more interesting than boys...
...there comes the dreadful day when it is reported from Simochka's university that she has been overheard making anti-party statements. This is serious business-only last year, two students had to be shot for forming a secret society. At this moment Novelist Grinioff's comic theme bursts into full cauliflower as his outraged Communist echoes the cry of many a rich bourgeois with a difficult child: "Where did she learn such words? She had a governess...
...posthumously purged by Khrushchev & Co., and the spiral of official truth spins into reverse. Simochka, it appears, was right all along. T.T. is back in the center of his absurd universe, and the bribes fly back from the terrified recipients. Thus Novelist Grinioff extracts ribald comedy from his central theme: under tyrannous government, humanity exists in the corruption of its officials. It is human crookedness that can best the inhuman game...
...need for dedicated advisers and investors was a constant theme with Asian and African delegates, resentful of colonial exploitation. But Iran's Ebtehaj pointed up another evil heritage: the bitter memory of exploitation of the people of underdeveloped countries by their own kind. Free enterprise still suffers in Iran, Ebtehaj said, from a "disastrous" experiment before World War II. Locally owned textile mills were established. Many small investors bought stock. The big stockholders, who exercised control, robbed the mills by overcharging for raw cotton they sold to the mills and underpaying for finished textiles they bought back from...
...there time?" asked Ebtehaj, echoing a major theme of the conference. "Is there time in which to effect these physical improvements in the standard of living, and yet to maintain the basic freedoms in which all of us here believe? We believe there is time−provided that our program in Iran responds to the spur of urgency. To such a spirit of urgency and decisiveness we are fully committed...