Word: motifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into contact with the issues that underlie present-day life. But there is no preachment, no propaganda, nothing that to, so to speak, foreign to Conway himself. Now such writing has the elements of permanence. Hilton's style is faultless in its case and smoothness, easily adaptable to the motif of his novels. Thus, in whatever he has to date published, there is a compactness, a unity, and an appeal that makes a lasting impression on the reader. James Hilton is decidedly a man to watch and "Lost Horizon" decidedly a book to read...
...Petersburg Nights" the Soviets have again produced a propaganda play, but with the all-is-bliss-in-the-Communist-state motif subdued sufficiently to eliminate boredom. Neither boring, nor gripping, this picture has its beauty in the Russian mode of presentation. The intense characterization and fascinating attention to detail make it an artistic masterpiece. Close-ups of the native physiognomy are numerous; the lorgnetted double-chinned dowager, the bewhiskered pre-Revolution land owner, and then the ardent young Nihilist and the inspired musician. In contradiction to the travelogues, Amkino Productions has found some hauntingly lovely Russian women...
...many observers, the Roosevelt experiment appears to lack a cohesive and easily grasped theme. This is possibly due to the fact that the motif of his reforms is monetary. This subject is little understood even by bankers, whose professional decisions concerning the size of their loans and investments themselves affect the volume of credit currency outstanding and with it raise the price level. On the surface, to an observer who sees from day to day only the disjointed and apparently unpredictable actions of the Administration, the whole experiment is apt to appear as the muddled meddling of a happy...
...Building (Manhattan) a gold-flecked top to suggest burning coal, proudly pointed out that windows which usually look like ugly black holes, become invisible in a black building. By putting orange shades on the windows of the Daily News Building he used them as a part of a vertical motif of alternating white and reddish stripes. His blue-green McGraw-Hill Building was almost all window. With Harvey Wiley Corbett and Benjamin Wistar Morris he was an architect for Rockefeller Center. He rejoiced that the average life of a Manhattan skyscraper is only 20 years because it gave architects...
...announce what is to follow. Thereafter there are no spoken words or titles. The cellos are portentous when Henry Ford's face appears on the screen. It fades out to reveal a plant interior, flashes of molten metal, men at work. A bouncing little refrain is the motif of the Ford engine, repeated every time, the motor is shown. As the automobile is slowly assembled the music melodically suggests hammering, welding, tapping, grinding...