Word: themes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...squeeze into New York State in the form of a French film adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's famed novel, with French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux as Lady Chat-terly, but was kept out by the New York board of regents. Condemning the entire movie as "immoral" in theme, the board said the film "glorifies adultery," presenting it as a "desirable, acceptable and proper pattern of behavior...
...assembly control'' bill is a variation on the same theme. Wherever there is integration, the General Assembly is now empowered to take over the integrated school at the request of local authorities. Should such a case ever reach the U.S. Supreme Court, the whole problem of states' rights would become involved. The question the court would have to answer: Does a state have the right to interpose itself between its citizens and the Fed eral Government...
...believe in a campaign year, said Ike, he had not come to Iowa to make a political speech but to visit again the Great Plains of his boyhood, "this great central granary of the United States." Rambling on with appropriate corniness, the President harked back to the "peace" theme of the television speech he had made earlier in the week (see below). The plow, he told his overalled, khakied and cottoned audience, is man's "symbol of peace"; in "that wonderful future time when there shall be no war," swords shall be beaten into plowshares. Farm families consequently "feel...
Overshadowed by his triumphal tour of Iowa was Dwight Eisenhower's first major political speech of the 1956 campaign, televised last week from a CBS studio in Washington. Honed to intellectual sharpness, it dwelt quietly upon a theme that has long dominated the President's thinking: peace...
Bitter Honeymoon, by Alberto Moravia. Sardonic short stories from the fine Italian hand of one of the ablest novelists alive on his favorite theme, the battle of the sexes-that war in which all victories are Pyrrhic (TIME...