Word: symbolisme
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Despite murky dramatic symbolism, German Playwright Karl Wittlinger poses a clear question: Can a sensitive, relatively innocent German atone for his nation's past war guilt? The answer is devastating in its self-pity and irresponsibility. Neither the West nor the East will permit Germany to atone, to "fight...
After Batala's first "death" his employees form a cooperative to run the press and publish Lange's magnum opus, Arizona Jim. The faubourg rejoices. Renoir illustrates the new freedom by continuing the visual symbolism of the street-building flux. Lange's invalid brother is living in a room whose...
My view is that his good ideas and draughtsmanship are limited by his oldfashioned, mushy medium and his refusal to stoop to symbolism.
What's wrong with symbolism? It was a pretty good tool in the hands of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Nast and is today in Richard Q. Yardley's wonderful work [for the Baltimore Sun].
What is remarkable is that Writer Kopit, after using up so much creative energy on his titles, had something left over for the plays themselves. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, described in undergraduate fashion by the playwright himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every...