Word: leitmotifs
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...Leitmotif of Rhapsody in Steel was the assembly of a Ford automobile. Thus not only did Mr. Ford manage to exhibit a cinema which attracts 6,000 Fair visitors daily but he shrewdly outmaneuvered General Motors, whose concession to have an actual assembly line on the Fair grounds was exclusive. To compose his music authoritatively Mr. Ludig visited Ford plants, discovered that their music "was in a sort of whole tone scale with a lot of overtones." He adopted certain rhythms like the poundings of hydraulic presses, used them as contrapuntal accompaniments to string and woodwind melodies. The factory whistle...
...leitmotif of this year's set of 28 was, in effect, "Don't pester business. Protect it where necessary...
Shelley's lines and a single sentence from the book explain Dr. Drinkwater's selection of a title: "It is the conflict of Byron, the essential poet, with this other Byron begotten by society upon his weaknesses, that is really the leitmotif of his story...
...Mosul is the centre of important oil fields and oil is the leitmotif in the Allied concerto. Officially, however, Britain claims the right of protecting Mosul by virtue of a League of Nations mandate; Turkey claims it on ethnographical ground; France has a purely financial interest dating back to the Ottoman régime...
...leitmotif of all the later writings of H. G. Wells is education. When therefore Mr. Wells designates a man in measured terms as " the greatest man I have ever known with any degree of intimacy," one is not surprised to find him an educator. The man is Frederick William Sanderson, headmaster of Oundle School, Northamptonshire, England, who died last year at the age of 66 in the height of his powers. He is the hero of a biographical sketch by Wells now running serially in The New Republic...