Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Humphrey stuck to his taxes-are-too-high theme when he appeared before Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee, although he was urging the Senators to extend corporation income taxes at their current rates (30% on the first $25,000 and 52% on the rest), instead of permitting them to drop as scheduled on April 1. Humphrey argued that holding the present rates is the only way to balance the budget; the committee, including Chairman Byrd, duly supported his view. Said Humphrey with genuine earnestness: "What we need, and what we need badly, in this country...
...wedding march gets off to a fast start with some noisy satire about attire. Kay Thompson is a shrewd old hag who edits a fashion mag. "THINK PINK!" she proclaims, and the women of the U.S. obediently buy pink poodles and pink mink. Then the lady finds a Serious Theme: "Clothes for the Woman Who Is Not Interested in Clothes." But who will model them...
With the aid of the titles, it is easy to comprehend most of the unfolding mystery of the Genesis theme as Kovarsky has conceived...
...dumbest director, but for some reason it was assigned to one of the brightest boys in Hollywood-John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Beat the Demi. And Huston, as nobody will be surprised to hear, has developed his unsubtly sensational theme into a big, slick composition that might appropriately be described as a rhapsody expressly composed for a thousand cash registers...
...chronic nervous tensions, chase the butterflies out of your stomach . . . and enable you to face things you've been running away from, for years!" The authors rattle on like pneumatic drills and 200 pages later bore through to the autosuggestive heart of the matter: "Your main, over-all theme in life, of course, is: 'I am going to succeed in everything I undertake! ... I am going to succeed in everything I undertake!' (Repetition, reiteration. Tap-tap-tap! Always tapping, pushing forward. Repeating, repeating-seeing yourself doing it, over and over-visualizing...