Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After that, Nkrumah's candidate was a shoo-in, and the P.M. himself could turn to other things. At week's end he turned up before the steering committee of the All-African People's Congress in Accra to deliver a stirring anticolonial address. Its theme: no African will ever be really free so long as other Africans...
...thousand elbows" and goes on to picture men pacing "like armor" with each one carrying a building on his back. The carelessness in this poem is evident to a greater or lesser degree in all of the others. They read as though the poet had chosen his theme, the depiction of a certain impotence, a certain deficiency in communication, and attacked it again and again, rapidly, realizing each time that his attempt has been unsuccessful but not caring to return and to correct, moving on immediately for the next abortive try. He puts together various dissimilar images, which obviously connect...
...Yard moves closer to the killer, the script unfortunately moves closer to propaganda, repeats its brothers-under-the-skin theme so often that the point is blunted. Sapphire is a novel mystery that pulls no punches, but it would have been even better if it had not started swinging with the left...
Aside from well-written and amusing scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is it to be nearer the sky that your brother stays up there?" The answer: "My brother considers that anyone who wants to see the earth properly must keep himself at a necessary distance from...
...movie's theme is mediocrity, the presentation of its moral is not. Room at the Top stands out as a careful and compelling use of the film medium. It tells its story with knowledgeable skill...