Word: symbolisme
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Most critics link Pound's anti-Semitism with his economic concerns adopted from C.H. Douglas's Social Credit theories. He believed in government management of money (as opposed to either private banks or public ownership of the means of production), and in his attacks on banks he often atacked 'Jusury...
Q: Your rhetoric is impressive, but what your interviews show is that, in practice, "fighting for freedom" means making people you support look good, and those you dislike look bad. Actually, the most interesting parts of your book are the introductions to each interview, in which you describe your perceptions...
But you don't even try to present these individuals in all their complexity; you prefer intellectual games of symbolism and pattern. When you start encouraging your interviewees to identify with their opponents, there's not much in your portraits that is acceptable as truth. Aren't you doing what...
In line with his concern with symbolism, many of Bercovitch's sentences read like a long string of identifications:
But pinball's deeper symbolism did not escape the sharp gaze of the audience.