Word: symbolisme
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Unconscious Symbolism
Died. Nelly Sachs, 78, German-Jewish poet who shared the 1966 Nobel Prize for literature with S.Y. Agnon; of cancer; in Stockholm. Daughter of a wealthy Berlin manufacturer, she might have passed her life as a dabbler in the arts except for the Nazis. They forced her to flee to...
Raunchy Liturgy. For years, Godard's films have been essentially free-association essays. Recently he has become less interested in culture than in politics. Films like Le Gai Savoir, for example, are basically director's monologues, with actors as mouthpieces and the audience made mute witness to sometimes...
One member of the group called the effort "a combination of symbolism and effectiveness" and said, "You don't have to get hung up with the tactics. If you are willing to be arrested, people can't say "We agree with your goals, but not with your tactics."
MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI has made another film for us to argue about. Zabriskie Point, a lush extravaganza about the American youth revolution and the violence that envelops it, lacks the neurotically painful symbolism, the lunatic clowns and invisible tennis balls, of Blow-Up. And the moral degeneration that played itself out...