Word: symbolisme
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All this puts a heightened premium on "symbols." Symbols and substance are both important, but for a President to confuse the two can be ruinous. He has to use symbols and symbolism - but not as ends in themselves and not as a substitute for substance.
He has settled into the job and grown more comfortable with it. His eyes flash with pleased excitement when he scampers up onstage at the University of Missouri at St. Louis and the band thumps out chorus after chorus of Hail to the Chief, which he once banned as too...
So they--Jimmy Breslin, Gay Talese, Wolfe and a few others--began adopting the techniques of the novel in the features they wrote for the Herald Tribune's Sunday supplement, or Esquire or anywhere. Symbolism, multiple perspectives, even self-indulgence: it was all there. What's more, it was all...
After the murals were unveiled in 1937, 2 years before the Nazi invasion of Poland, many considered their symbolism an insult to the leader of a foreign nation. The museum maintained that the paintings were simply representations of the legends.
A legend on the film's end credits states that it is "based upon the true life story of John Merrick, known as the Elephant Man, and not upon the Broadway play of the same title or any other fictional account." Bernard Pomerance's play dealt as much...