Word: motif
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Motif From "The Tempest...
...this masque Mr. MacKaye has taken the Shakesperian character of "Caliban" in "The Tempest" as a motif, and through the dramatic action and interludes he symbolizes the struggles of mankind through history and dramatic art to higher ideals of civilization. Only out-of-doors could such an ambitious theme with its pictures and tableaux be presented...
...Regiment. Dr. Sargent declares emphatically that military training yields inadequate and unbalanced results in physical development, and President-Emeritus Charles Eliot presumedly voices the American democratic feeling as to the "moral discipline" when he objects that we do not desire to teach boys and young men the "implicit obedience" motif, rather we desire them to think and act for themselves as men, not as units in a machine. Is not the regimentation of men into machines the very thing Americans fear and deplore in the Prussian scheme of organization...
...Wood's "Grip of the Tropics" "grips"-but its Madam Butterfly motif is far from...
...class of the mediocre belong the three bits of verse, "The Jap Doll," "Lamentation," and "The Caravan." The first transposes the "Madame Butterfly Motif" into the familiar key of Kipling's dialesticisms. The second is a highly colored trifle as frail as the "jewelled veil gossamer" that its writer mentions. The last is purposeless but inoffensive. Like so much modern verse, all of these compositions lack the bone and fibre of solid thought and poetic necessity. They leave the impression that their authors sat down and cried, "Lo, I must produce a poem," and then cudgelled their brains...