Word: motifs
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...this reviewer's memory serves him, the film follows its historical motif with reasonable fidelity, although, of course, the emphasis is placed upon the ill-starred Lady Jane Grey and Lord Warwick rather than upon other equally important figures of the time. The director's treatment is thoroughly sympathetic and, although the finale is a foregone conclusion, the movement of Lady Jane upon the chessboard of English politics is one which greatly concerns the spectator...
...carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...Gothie architecture is done especially well, with a keen eye for details, and the scroll motif on the archway is of particular interest because it shows that the Renaissance influence was beginning of penetrate into France...
...readers, in telling a story not in propria persona but through the words and actions of characters; in fact he has every gift to commend him to the reader's respect except greatness. The lack of that quality in Mr. Bontemps is serious, for he has chosen for the motif of his novel the events of a slave insurrection in Virginia in 1800, and such a theme requires greatness. It is beside the point that greatness is still to seek nowadays, since the long-awaited and long-heralded "great American novel" is in abeyance, and there is scarcely a critic...
Phil Claff, wandering accordion player, contributed greatly to the success of the Leverett dance last Friday evening, while the music of Craig Hunting's orchestra and the Rabbit Motif in decorating both received their share of acclaim...