Word: symbolisme
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On the day of the hurricane, Everett S. Allen, fresh out of college, began his first full day as a reporter on the New Bedford (Mass.) Standard-Times, where he now serves as chief editorial writer. He had spent the summer of '38 on his native Martha's...
Although Ford clearly starts out as the underdog?trailing in the latest Gallup poll 37% to Carter's 52%?the struggle with Carter promises to be the most exciting and fascinating since John Kennedy edged Richard Nixon in 1960. In fact, in its patterns and subtleties, it may well...
"Symbolism is the thought of 1900," Art Historian Victor Beyer suggests in the catalogue, "while art nouveau is its gesture, its spasm." Even at this distance, one can sense how liberating the gesture must have seemed: an escape from the thick, relentlessly overstuffed world of Second Empire Paris into an...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt...
When he became Lyndon Johnson's Vice President, the Oval Office was only a step-and a heartbeat-away. But Johnson made immediately clear what their relationship would be: master and vassal. Shortly after the 1964 convention that nominated them, L.B.J. drove Humphrey around his Texas ranch. Spotting a...