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...Arch for Manhattan's Times Square, to be erected when the boys come marching home. The scheme, sponsored by the Broadway Association, was described by its backers as "an arch fashioned to represent two huge palm leaves which are emblematic of Victory. . . . At the apex of the main motif will be placed the figures of Peace and Justice. The finger of Peace will point in the direction of Europe and Asia. Justice, displaying her broken sword, will be shown facing the Americas...
Military Millinery. In Darkest Africa, the trend in witch-doctor millinery was to the modern warfare motif...
...other works in chamber music fit the parallel. Both Beethoven and Eliot are working with the most difficult and quintessential of all materials for art: the substance of mystical experience. Both, in the effort to translate it into art, have strained traditional forms and created new ones. Both use motif, refrain, counterpoint, contrasts both violent and subtle, the normal coinage of both arts, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal coinage, for purposes more profound and more intense than their normal transactions...
Wired Artist John M. Buckley, who has owned Motif No. 1 for the past 13 years: "Motif No. 1 is my personal studio. Therefore I join others in the Rockport colony in vigorous protest. In fact, I think I will see my lawyer...
Wired the Dial Press: "Is there anything we can do?" In a public apology the Press said: "The company hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Rockport . . . also hopes it hasn't offended the good people of Provincetown." Then the publishers commissioned Motif-Owner Buckley to paint a Provincetown scene for the jacket of its third edition of Time and the Town. Sniggering Provincetowners wondered whether he would have a studio to finish it in. Reason: battered by decades of New England wind & weather, Motif No. 1 was reported last week to be collapsing. With...