Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King seems to be a national symbol of the moral decline of the English-speaking people of the world. I lived under the austere reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, and while her reign was irksome to those who were immorally inclined, she did in a most decisive way, place her moral stamp upon the English-speaking people of the world, and while in many cases the imposed morality was nothing more than a veneered hypocrisy, on the whole, the standards were high, and the British Empire attained its Golden Age under this noble monarch. I also lived under King...
...mural completed last spring entitled "The Ring of the Niebelungen" represents the dwarf ruler Alberich whipping his workers in order to speed up their creation of destructive wealth, symbolized by the Ring forged from the Rhine gold. The artist is here attempting to present the struggle between creative science and material greed, not, as some one tried to interpret it, a comparison between the treatment of regimented and unregimented workers in contemporary Germany. At the left of the main part of the mural, Alberich's hand tries to grasp the Rhine gold, reaching up from sea-green water, while maidens...
...took place that the earth trembled, and wiped out the existing race. This animated scene has been translated by commotion-seekers into the attack of Nazidom on the Church. The origin of this fantastic idea is the minute cross-shaped mark, more like a trade mark than a Church symbol, cut in the halberd of one of the Gods. At the right, as yet unfinished, there will be shown a sleeper awakening, standing for the regenerated race of man after the holocaust at Asgard...
...Sanfelice" is a beautiful and thrilling book. The heroine, La Sanfelice herself, an impoverished nobelwoman whose sympathies in the Neapolitan Revolution are naturally aristocratic but who accidentally betrays a royalist counter-revolution and becomes the toast and symbol of the Jacobin cause, comes to life in these pages. Her dissolute husband, her lover Fernando, her nephew Lauriano, are specimens in the fine art of re-creating historical characters. The personal histories of this quartet, and that of Don Gerardo Baker, are fascinatingly unfolded against the grim pageant of Naples torn by civil strife...
...stage, or at least one studio of it, is made to repose all its hopes for artistic expression in an illegitimate baby. After a trying attack of measles, this gallant little trouper called happy becomes a has-been at eight months. But one must not take Happy as a symbol for the movies in general, despite the marked parallels; nothing so subtle is meant...