Word: motif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...violates the body and desecrates the spirit at the same time. Despite its manifest ugliness, it makes a powerful subject for a play, since any bruising or brutal confrontation between two or more human beings is the atavistic fuel of drama. Indeed, plays with rape as a central motif recur in theatrical literature. Perhaps the most notable is Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, in which the heroine-victim, Lavinia, has her tongue cut out and her hands cut off. She secures her revenge when she reveals her rapists' identities by scratching their names in sand...
...think it's great to see Harvard pictures on the walls," says customer Roger Graves 43. "It adds a good warm touch." Graves feels that the motif is "a smart marketing idea...
Tagliente, a varsity football player during his undergraduate days all the U.S. Naval Academy, now own several local burger King restaurants. Each restaurant "tries to reflect the dominant influence" in the community through décor, Tagliente says. He adds that the Harvard motif represents "quite an investment...
...themes Rauch pursues most vigorously is the generation gap motif; he has said he can't shake the radical impression that if the young lovers had only appealed to their families for help, unexpected understanding might have Everett the disaster. And whether any invention of the sort comes from the script or not-presumably not-it comes through clearly when played. Both lovers appear awkward and withdrawn at home. becoming human and open only to each other...
...cannot deny, after all, that the Review has had some effect at Dartmouth. Walking across the campus, one can see people sporting jackets and sweatshirts with the old Indian motif; the Review is surprisingly well-read, both at Dartmouth and outside of the College; and even the Dartmouth plan is coming under review (though this can probably be attributed to President McLaughlin, but after all, which section of campus opinion kept it an issue?). Although the Review should continue to oppose intelligently those aspects of policy with which a disagrees, a continued polarization of campus opinion might eventually lead...