Word: leitmotivs
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...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...
...were in childhood. All my aches and pains were gone. Come what may, this is happiness. Now, for a few minutes, I can experience perfection." Anna draws comfort from this passage, and "the whispers and cries," the murmured intimations of turmoil and panic that have been like a leitmotiv on the sound track, die away...
...thousands of cloistered valleys, Himalayan artists developed a magnificence and mystery of their own. "The visual diversity of Himalayan art is incredibly wide," says Singh. "The sculptures are carved in all forms of relief, and in painting the variety of colors is equally rich. But to find the leitmotiv," he adds, "one must look beyond its incidental stylistic, mythological, ritualistic and legendary associations, toward the majestic silvery peaks symbolizing primeval ideals...
...Your cover story and a current historical bestseller, Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower, share a leitmotiv from Edgar Allan Poe's "The City in the Sea": While from a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down...