Word: symbolisme
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The script beneath the pictures reads like one of John Lennon's semiliterate Joycean pastiches. Flabby punjabs pass for wit ("Are you bluish? You don't look bluish"), and the boys' voyage is filled with stilted symbolism. In one scene, the quartet passes by the Sea of...
Unliterary Acquaintance. Even with symbolism and cold-war politics set aside, the book presents some special difficulties, especially for American readers. No country has had more secondhand exposure to sickroom scenarios than the U.S. It is not, as one might expect, recollections of The Magic Mountain or nostalgia for Arrow...
For all its symbolism, a U.S. presidential election is not a contest between good and evil, a referendum on war, or a race between philosopher-kings that dissidents can safely ignore because party leaders have rejected the loftiest candidates. Viewing the election in such terms is no more realistic than...
The TCB production fails by not providing this increasingly foreign and threatening atmosphere. The speech and acting has none of the operatic formalism needed to project what happens beyond specific history into mystery and symbolism.
The avowed objectives of the April demonstrations, stripped of their context and symbolism, were inadequate causes for an uprising.