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...interview yesterday, it became clear that he like to talk about the purely Dutch elements which his uncle depicted while in southern France. The drawbridge, boats on the beach and the flat, plain-like terrain of Vincent's mature work are all typically Dutch, not French, themes. The recurrent motif, found in the late works, of mountains rising in the distance beyond the plains reflects the lowlander's fondness for height. In Dutch medieval manuscripts the local terrain is invariably represented in this manner, an example of national wishful thinking...
...lectured an Edinburgh audience. The popular concept that the roof is the very essence of architecture became so deeply ingrained that Louis Sullivan, Chicago's famed skyscraper builder, felt it necessary to crown his tall buildings with huge, floriated lids. Frank Lloyd Wright made the roof the dominating motif of his houses. But as modern architects worked away at the box-on-stilts ideal, the roof all but disappeared from view...
...example of the kind of polish she had in mind, Anne Ford last week gave a big, elegant coming-out party for her Daughter Charlotte at suburban Grosse Pointe Farms' upper-crust Country Club of Detroit, which was fitted out for the occasion with an 18th century French motif by Paris Designer Jacques Frank. It cost something over $250,000 to entertain the 1,270 guests who ate up, among other things, 5,000 finger sandwiches, 2,160 scrambled eggs, 100 Ibs. of corned beef hash, drank 480 bottles of Cuvée Dom Perignon (1949) and 720 bottles...
Roar of Agony. Without overture or curtain, the opera opened with Oedipus singing expository lines of 69 German syllables, every one of them on middle C. The orchestra then established the only genuine motif in the entire work-a rapid, stepwise up-and-down flourish that occurred again and again, eventually became Oedipus' climactic roar of agony. The work unfolded without set pieces or arias, and the staging by Director Günther Rennert was similarly spare, e.g., when Jocasta (Soprano Astrid Varnay) learned that she was the mother of Oedipus she threw her head back with mouth agape...
...Pathos and not tragedy is the motif of our se sefl-consciousness," the Rev. Dr. Joseph Sittler concluded last night. Exploring "The Context of Confirmation" in his third Noble Lecture, Sittler proposed that the Christian story calls for an "organic" human response "as rich, as supple and as unpredictable as the story itself...