Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

Before merging them into a common profile it is well to remember that their separate careers were extraordinary.

This almost trivial example is nevertheless suggestive, for there are some elements in common between the antique fear that the days would get shorter and shorter and our present fear of war.

Harold Clurman is right to say that `` Waiting For Godot '' is a reflection ( he calls it a distorted reflection ) `` of the impasse and disarray of Europe's present politics, ethic, and common way of life ''.

However, it is important to trace the philosophy of the French Revolution to its sources to understand the common democratic origin of individualism and socialism and the influence of the latter on the former.

But it is the need to undertake these testaments that I would submit here as symptom of the common man's malaise.

As symptomatic of the common man's malaise, he is most significant: a liberal and a Catholic, elected by the skin of his teeth.

What is the common man's complaint??

But what a super-Herculean task it is to winnow anything of value from the mud-beplastered arguments used so freely, particularly since such common use is made of cliches and stereotypes, in themselves declarations of intellectual bankruptcy.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

They all have this in common: the earth is situated near the center of the deferent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

Now this concern for the freedom of other peoples is the intellectual and spiritual cement which has allied us with more than forty other nations in a common defense effort.

A common meeting ground is desirable for those nations which are prepared to assist in the development effort.

Conventional images of Jews have this in common with all perceptions of a configuration in which one feature is held constant: images can be both true and false.

If art is to release us from these postulated things ( things we must think symbolically about ) and bring us back to the ineffable beauty and richness of the aesthetic component of reality in its immediacy, it must sever its connection with these common sense entities ''.

In the wide range of experiences common to our earth-bound race none is more difficult to manage, more troublesome, and more enduring in its effects than the control of love and hate.

`` History has this in common with every other science: that the historian is not allowed to claim any single piece of knowledge, except where he can justify his claim by exhibiting to himself in the first place, and secondly to any one else who is both able and willing to follow his demonstration, the grounds upon which it is based.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

British common sense is proverbial.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

The first of two possible variations on this theme is symbolized by Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer.

Let me quote him even more fully, for his analysis is important to my theme.

Incest is still a durable theme, but if it wants to get written about it will have to find ways to surprise the emotions, and there is no better way to do this than that of concealment and symbolic representation.

but his principal theme is that the intrigues of the Tories, `` our Popish or Jacobite Party '', pose an immediate threat to Church and State.

Perhaps it is only an analogy, but one of the most obvious differences between cheap fiction and fiction of an enduring quality is the development of a theme or story with leisure and anticipation.

The theme of The Walnut Trees Of Altenburg is most closely related to its immediate predecessor in Malraux's array of novels: Man's Hope ( 1937 ).

It is this larger theme of the `` quality of man '', a quality that transcends the ideological and flows into `` the human '', which now forms the pulsating heart of Malraux's artistic universe.

It is extremely important for each American to realize that the theme `` The United Nations Is Your Business '' applies to him personally.

A quiet but sturdy theme, somewhat folklike in character, appears whenever the old monk speaks of the history he is recording or of his own past life:

Like about half of the 1860 - 70 poems, it is a sonnet on a conventional theme -- the unhappiness of love.

Both of them did communicate one central theme: Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense -- the creative act.

This, of course, is the theme of much art -- perhaps most poetry.

It is the theme of Horace, who certainly otherwise bears little resemblance to Parker or Thomas.

The difference is that Horace accepted his theme with a kind of silken assurance.

The immediate theme, if it exists, is incidental, and his main theme -- the terror of birth -- is simply reiterated.

Money, so important a theme elsewhere in Dickens, is here central, and hands are often associated in some way with the false values -- acquisitiveness, snobbery, self-interest, hypocrisy, toadyism, irresponsibility, injustice -- that attach to a society based upon the pursuit of wealth.

Stagecoach Days is the theme for the weekend on the Old Chisholm Trail.

This is one of the main reasons for National Library Week, April 16-22, and for its theme: `` For a richer, fuller life, read ''!!

But this is a theme which does not take so much time to state as Mr. Wesker dedicates to it.

In G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, Pimlico is used as an example of " a desperate thing.

It was immortalised in the lines of G. K. Chesterton's poem The Rolling English Road from his book The Flying Inn: " For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen ; Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

Chesterton's version changes all this ; it is less intuitive to write and has a more unusual sound.

For example, G. K. Chesterton's poem Lepanto contains the memorable couplet " From evening isles fantastical rings faint the Spanish gun, / And the Lord upon the Golden Horn is laughing in the sun.

* Gabriel Syme is the main character in G. K. Chesterton's The Man Who Was Thursday.

McCabe is also known for his inclusion in G. K. Chesterton's book Heretics.

The novelisation of The Daleks by David Whitaker is written in first person from Ian Chesterton's perspective, and changes his initial meeting with the Doctor, Susan, and Barbara to a car accident involving the two ladies.

Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternate reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes.