Word: leitmotifs
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...leitmotif that plays repeatedly throughout the book is Chambers anger and distress that all "the best people" heaped muck on him and sided with Hiss. The author wastes no opportunity to demonstrate the presence of the socially elite in the Communist camp. He frequently singles out Harvard which he appears to regard as an exclusive sanctuary for the rich and well born...
...Salome" contains many construction and orchestration devices which are seldom found in the earlier Italian operas. For example, Strauss makes some use of the "leitmotif," (a melody with a specific connotation) which is so conspicuous in Wagner's operas. One particularly striking example is the theme which usually accompanies the religious statements of Jokanaan, and which later appears greatly distorted, after his decapitation. Another use of this device, combined with an intentional and effectively weird orchestration is found in Salome's several repetitions of the phrase "give me the head of Jokanaan...
...Wherever you are, we will get you." These words, beamed to Sweden over the Soviet-controlled Estonian radio, haunted the memories of a 21-year-old housewife and her friends seeking entry into the U.S. last week. They were the leitmotif of a journey that had seemed endless. "I fled from Estonia to Finland because of the Germans," said the girl, on Ellis Island. "A year later, in 1944, I fled from Finland to Sweden because of the Russians." Her shipmates-steelwork-ers, a glassblower, weavers, seamstresses, mechanics, lawyers, farmers, fishermen-had similar tales to tell. An Estonian farmer told...
...latest effort, "It's a Wise Child," is an innocuous, frothy story, in which the actors, and even the audience, seem to have a good time. Its leitmotif is the tribulation of two young unmarried ladies who are about to have children (one for Corio, and one for a mysterious creature named Annie, who never does appear.) Variations on the theme, which continually keep running in and out, include the struggle of a bouncing young man, played by Charles Bell, to get ahead in the world, the quarrels between a character evidently inspired by Caspar Milquetoast, played by Robert...
...situations and sentiments vaudeville has for generations connected with Celts. Somehow Thomas Mitchell was snared into playing the lead as an Irish cop. Priscilla Lane is his daughter whose elopement with her father's Scawttish supplanter on the police force (Dennis Morgan) complicates further the picture's leitmotif-the family feud between the Scotch and the Irish...