Word: symbolisme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Senator was almost instantly his old collected self, and shouted in familiar tremorless way: "We used to have green colors hung in the President's room, but some smooth-fingered fellow near Alfred thought he would hang the room in red, the cardinals colors, so as to be ready...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel...
One of the pictures in the present exhibition, called the "Corn Dance", is particularly fine in design. Here is represented an invocation to the deities that have given the corn, provided for its germination, and brought it to maturity. A complete discussion of the major Corn Dance would involve the...
Until a few years ago Cambridge possessed a dignified and justly prized historical relic in the Washington Elm. As a monument the tree was justly famous. Those who visited Cambridge had it pointed out to them. Those who did not visit Cambridge knew the old tree by reputation and by...
I would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home...