Word: symbolics
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...many other everyday objects were also supposedly ridden by witches to their gatherings. Brooms also sometimes had a protective function against witches. In Tyrolean tradition, for example, a broom placed against a door would bar a witch from moving through it. As to the question of the phallic symbol, yes, one can read it that way, I suppose, although some of the other objects (e.g., the churn) might be even better candidates. Certainly its presentation in well-known contexts, such as Dürer’s image of the witch on her way to Walpurgis, allows the broom...
...witches’ broom a phallic symbol...
...created was a classical hall for an anticlassical city. In Bilbao, his curves make you think of the Spanish baroque. In L.A., they bring to mind all those magic wands in Disney sketching silver arcs in the air. Even before it opened, the building was becoming the iconographic symbol of a city that until now has had to make do with a big Hollywood sign. A few weeks ago, if you happened to be touring the garden and small outdoor amphitheaters that Gehry has provided at roof level, you might have run across Cindy Crawford doing a fashion shoot...
...forgotten this now, in these days of two-hour check-in lines, on these planes full of people but light on comfort, but there was a time when flying was a joy. The Concorde, the last, best symbol of the glamorous (and exclusive) world of air travel, makes its last flight today. Looking to recapture a little of that magic, I hitched a ride last week on one of the final flights of the British Airways Concorde. What I found was a plane filled not with bankers and rock stars, but with ordinary folks looking for the flight...
...University in this Cambridge, instead, can offer us only weedy looking patches, worn at the edges by overworked students cutting corners to get to section on time. Those corners, and the dirt in between them, are not the symbol of power and beauty they could be. Think of the symbolism exuding from thriving, refulgent green spaces: vigour, growth, abundance, fertility! The image projected currently around the abodes of the new students is of life taking root only with trouble, of impeded growth on barren soil. Hardly encouraging for an impressionable class of first-years...