Word: motif
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left-hand panel the motif is that of a mortally wounded soldier clasping in his left arm the shrouded figure of Death and in his right the Winged Victory. Beneath his feet lies a fallen private, and above him are angels blowing trumpets. The face of Death is hidden and the figure wears a crown, but the effect is sombre and terrifying. The Victory, on the other hand, is of a light golden color, affording a radiant contrast to the genius of Death...
Efficiency is the motif of the times, so the colorful figures must go. It is true that the college will become more like an insurance office with its restrictions resulting from the connubial ties but the old levity is taboo. Weekends in New York must give way to shopping trips to buy Oscar Jr. a new kiddie car. Percy Marks will have to leave the field to the more domesticated Gertrude Atherton...
...prevalent (TIME, Dec. 17), may be detected from the real. The ''Great Eye," said he, is that which perceives "the division of light and shadow through an infinite number of planes . . . the secret of all living paintings or sculpture." Sculptor Barnard waved a finger at a twisted motif on his mantel, where graceful shadows tremulously yielded to high lights. Fakers cannot achieve this subtle chiaroscuro, so they roughen their surfaces with sandblasting to simulate...
...hard to say just wherein the picture falls down, it comes so close to being truly excellent. Perhaps more than in anything else the fault is in tendency for the story to moralize, to proclaim too blatantly the some-what shopworn "I still believe in you" motif. Far be it from this reviewer to simply that that is not a good and even often necessary chord, but nevertheless it has always had the effect on him of inducing a slight shudder when it is blared forth upon the brasses...
...class teams of the fall of 1925 were handicapped in practising and playing by an informality that was terrific to opponents, but of doubtful benefit to the men themselves. In 1926 Director of Athletics Bingham gave the opening chord of the athletics-for-all motif with the establishment of a class football squad, coached by former University players, thoroughly outfitted, and playing on fields of its own. Football can now be taken up at almost any time during the fall; an intensive grass drill as preliminary to each practice insures the newcomer against strain and the injuries of ill condition...