Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...event a law-minded nation such as Israel could hardly be regarded in the same light as Russia. If Egypt violates the armistice agreement, it "should be dealt with firmly by the society of nations." As he drove home his points, however, Ike rarely moved far from his central theme: "The United Nations must not fail," he said, looking directly into the cameras. "I believe that in the interests of peace the U.N. has no choice but to exert pressure upon Israel to comply with the withdrawal resolutions...
...Seventh Avenue sat heavily, resting weary feet. Fashion reporters, department-store buyers and manufacturers, they were gathered for the annual rite of Paris' spring collections -the mystic and sacred time when Paris' top couturiers reveal to a tiptoe world the latest variations and dissonances on the theme of the Eternal Feminine...
Playwright Carolyn Green's epic untidily spins out the thought that a women needs two men to satisfy her needs--an intellectual etherial type to minister to her soul and a breadwinning family man to keep her in expensive clothes. This theme Miss Green manages to spin out for a heavy handed, and for the most part, unfunny three acts. Poorly crafted, the script seems almost a parody of the stock devices that are supposed to make a "hit," or as the play bill calls it, a "wildly romantic comedy." The specifics of the plot involve the wife...
...poetry of feeling." As a followup, Moscow Radio's English broadcast quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about the only subject [is] the portrayal and glorification of Stalin," and hailing the fact that "the beauty of the nude body, especially the feminine, that eternal theme of realistic art, has again found its place in the painting of social realism...
...Italian films, the Italian government forced its state-subsidized movie industry to lower standards and raise skirts. Nevertheless, in Gold of Naples, Director De Sica has managed to say with a smile what he could not have said with a sneer. The four stories are variations on the same theme of human bondage that De Sica develops in all his serious films, and he plays his variations with no less passion and poetic irony because he is playing them for laughs...