Word: motif
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...actual disturbance is only the prelude to the pleasant motif. It is always comforting to feel that the senator from California is in a receptive mood as the presidential year rolls round. There comes therewith that sense of healthy normalcy which used to be felt in those days when the candidacy of Mr. Bryan was a hardy perennial...
...play is, in a curious way, a combination of some of the basic legends of literature. There is the Faust motif in David's brief hour of the pleasure of giving which will cease when the last kopeck is gone; there is the Job motif in the curse that he suffers; there is a touch of Milton's Satan in the heroic defiance of Anathema; there is a strong suggestion of Stephen in the stoning of a Christlike man by the people "who know not what they...
Every once in a while a murder is committed that unites in one "news story" all the sleeping romantic fancies of human nature. Such a murder is the Dorothy King case. It has love (and illicit love-which is always more fascinating), riches, social prestige, an underworld motif, intrigue and violence. It appeals to snobbery, outraged morality, pity, terror and man's appetite for the human hunt. Thousands of plain people, reading the lurid three-page account in the Hearst press, can imagine themselves either the beautiful Broadway butterfly, Dorothy King; the rich and socially prominent "angel...
...spirit of jazz, into the classic art of music. Despite the universal execration and condemnation of jazz, the tendency today is along the lines of diatonic music as against chromatic music, the vehicle of expression which Wagner employed. While the Vienese school is still adhering to the chromatic motif, the diatonic tendencies are experiencing a rapid development under the eager minds of Parisian composers...
...closely the representations of the Nativity, including the period from Annunciation to the Massacre of the Innocents, found in illuminated manuscripts and mediaeval paintings. O. M. Oenslager '23 will have charge of all settings and scenic effects, assisted by Donald Stralem '24, who will manage the lighting. The whole motif will be brought out on a background of ancient religious music--chants and hymns--by a choir from the Glee Club trained by Dr. A. T. Davison...