Word: motif
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arranged to blarney & bully the fear out of his patients. This is a recent reversal of Dr. Bloodgood's clinical attitude. Heretofore he has preached: get an early diagnosis, no matter if you must scare the wits out of the people. Anti-cancer propaganda has had a fear motif, condoned only for its salutary effect on a supposedly ignorant, obtuse public...
...tale Librettist Hammerstein has to tell variously interrupts or suddenly pounces upon or absentmindedly neglects the tunes which flow continuously from Composer Kern's brimming music box. Neither operetta, musicomedy nor revue, Music in the Air is billed simply as "a musical adventure." Scenes are labeled Leit Motif, Etudes, Pastoral, Impromptu, Sonata...
...itself to masterly treatment. In "Blonde Venus" this theme is ruined by lurid, florid, tabloid handing which carries the mother from the arms of her Husband, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, to prostitution, to stardom in a revue, and with the leit motif of "a little child shall lead them," back to the arms of her husband. The whole amounts to exactly nothing as an intelligent or entertaining treatment of the problem...
...motif of this, the seventh and last part of the novel, is Time and Change. Throughout the years Proust traces, things and people have slowly altered, but it took the war to give the final impetus for the complete reversal of the Paris society, the society of the "Guermantes set," he pictures. From the time that the narrator sees the stricken M. de Charlus bow like a slave before Mme. de Sainte-Euverte, a woman he had always refused to recognize, till the author decides to write this work, it is the change that has come about that he emphasizes...
Last week the vultures found ripe carrion, a pile of 45 framed etchings at $2 each. They were rather smudgy plates by someone obviously impressed by William Blake, all on the same basic motif: nude man in supplication before a female angel. Each was signed "In Verehrung gewidmet"-dedicated in adoration-"Edwin Krenn, Arch. 1920." The vultures' eyes gleamed. Little Edwin Krenn, Swiss architect, Chicago real estate promoter, was the adoring friend of the late Edith Rockefeller McCormick. The plates were etched in Zurich, seven years after he met his benefactor, and they had been sent over...