Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annoyed because God has given him just enough sense to understand what an impotent fool he really is. This gloomy abstraction is woven into a play about a wealthy farmer's family to which was born a human monstrosity.* After 23 years of confinement it escaped and became the symbol of a revolt of the beggars. A grim and horribly concluded love story runs somewhat amuck among the episodes of war and death...
Konigplatz smacked of Sadowa and Sedan and a long line of national glories running back to Teutoberg. But the old war lord has been unhorsed, and in his place there sits a female figure, symbol of democracy. For Konigplatz gives way to Platz der Republik...
...about half of the 13 scenes, this trickery becomes a dizzying harlequinade at the last. Leona Hogarth (Margaret) and William Harrigan (Billy Brown) cope very successfully with their strenuous parts, both masked and unmasked. Anne Shoemaker is bravely understanding in the all but unstageable mask of Cybel, prostitute and symbol of Earth...
...Golden Rose has long been the symbol by which the Vatican linked itself to notable current events, or expressed appreciation of outstanding acts of piety. Formerly it was given yearly to the incumbent prefect of Rome for guiding the reins of the Pope's horse in procession. Gradually the presentation has become rare until now, when the Rose to Elizabeth is only the second given in the last three pontificates. Only once has the Rose come to an American rulerLeo X sent it to Duke Frederick of Saxony, supplicating him, in vain, not to sustain Devil-seeing Martin Luther...
Before despatching this splendid symbol to Brussels, his Holiness waited until mass was over, then blessed the Rose, sprinkled it with holy water, read the ancient prayers of the Rite of the Golden Rose, and imparted his Apostolic Blessing, while a master of ceremonies held the gift in his hands, kneeling at the Pope's feet...