Word: motif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaking of libraries, I'm entering my collection in that contest for the best undergraduate library. Sure, my library is organized around one motif--mysteries. I have all the classics, including "The Hardy Boys and the Mystery of the Stolen Treasure," "Nancy Drew and the Mystery of the Stolen Treasure," and my favorite, "James Bond and the Treasure of the Mystery Stole...
Unlike Portnoy's Complaint, David's Jewishness is a minor motif. Although he treats David's childhood, growing up in his father's Jewish resort hotel, humorously, Roth is not interested in painting the expose of American Jewish life that he did in Portnoy's Complaint. Judaism is mainly a symbol. The Jew as an exile and survivor is used in conjunction with Roth's depiction of the ceaseless quest for love which, when found, fades only for the search to be renewed. As one of David's students writes in an essay: "The search for intimacy, not because...
...idea of putting wheedle on wheels came to Charles Bird, now 36, a former Los Angeles advertising consultant. Beetle owners who qualify -their cars must be insured and log at least 1,000 miles a month for "exposure" -get a free paint job along with the advertising motif, plus $20 a month. Aimed initially at college kids, the campaign has enlisted doctors, professors, lawyers, businessmen and bankers. Themes have included a mustachioed, sombreroed Mexican against an orange background (Ole Tequila), a red baron flying high in a blue sky (Seagram's Gin) and a hearts-and-cupids background emblazoned...
...getting nowhere. Three weeks before the opening, I said, 'Quick, I need some music.' I had some Debussy piano pieces in my record collection, and I thought, 'That's better.' I started all over again." Taylor's improvising continued. The eventual motif was determined by Designer Gene Moore, who watched a run-through and said one word, "Crete." The resulting Images seems like an inevitable blending of Debussy with Minoan reliefs...
...Another motif which runs throughout both books is the shocking and unnecessary heavy-handedness with which Israelis have dealt with the Arabs. The fates of two villages, as reported in both books, Deir Yasin and Kfar Kassim, demonstrate the extremes to which this policy could be carried. Deir Yasin has become the well-known rallying cry of the Palestinian resistance; on April 9, 1948, the terrorist bands Lehi and Irgun Zvai Leumi--the latter under Menahim Begin's leadership--massacred some 250 Arabs. But Deir Yasin is merely the most remembered of several massacres that summer which were intended...