Word: leitmotiv
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union's invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. "Nonetheless," Revel adds, "the French left has to hear it played again on another instrument. They had it last time on the piano, now they are getting it on the tuba." In the current context of French politics, the leitmotiv of the New Philosophers may well be the theme that many are yearning to hear...
...fewer than 55 speeches, including an eight-hour stem-winder by Le Duan. The theme of the Congress-Thong Nhat (national reunification)-was symbolized by the arrival of delegates from the South aboard the inaugural run of the rebuilt Saigon-Hanoi railway. Indeed, not only Thong Nhat was the leitmotiv of the long-winded harangues, but it was visible every day in Hanoi on newly renamed hotels, cafes, streets and the capital's largest park...
...this elegiac exhibition of the art of a vanishing race has a leitmotiv, it is an elongated, galloping wooden horse carved by a Sioux and collected by a missionary. Wounded - by a white man's bullet? - the anguished animal seems to be flying forever across thousands of miles of American experience. It epitomizes an essential theme of American art and literature: nature corrupted and innocence defiled...
...freedom to choose one's country of residence has become a touchstone for the entire process of détente. Therefore I trust that the defense of that freedom will become a leitmotiv of the European Security Conference. It is being decided right now whether détente is to be a comprehensive, profound process of historic significance involving the democratization and opening up of Soviet society, or whether it is to be a cynical political game serving only the short-term political and economic interests of some individuals, a plot behind the backs of the people at large...
...wonder. Based on a Prokofiev suite, Waltzes is perhaps Robbins' most sensuous and romantic ballet and, at the same time, an intellectually ingenious treatment of the possibilities inherent in this dance form. In the first four sections of the work, Robbins uses the waltz almost as a leitmotiv. In the midst of a complex variation, for instance, the corps will suddenly pace off a basic waltz step. At the finale, the stage is filled with swirling bodies, suggesting the Dionysian impulses of a dance once considered impolitely erotic...