Word: symbolisme
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A celebrated Swiss architect took two and a half hours Saturday night to compare irrational symbolism in pre-historic art to that of "Finnegan's Wake," and then to call on his profession "to throw out the straight-line logic of playboy architecture" in favor of a revived symbolism which...
"But we are no longer satisfied with mere facts" and the right angles of modern architecture. Throughout history man has resorted to the symbols of art and religion to satisfy his "innate passion to express the inexpressible." Architecture must recognize this "longing for unity" and find in symbolism the expression...
Unfortunately, Miller tends to abuse his symbolism, and almost always clogs fine scenes with impassioned hyperbole or artless redundacy. Only one short episode escapes exaggeration: Montgomery Clift, a battered rodeo rider, telephoning his mother to say that he is alive and well. In contrast to this, there is the climactic...
It all depends on how much you like drama. Drama entirely for its own sake--no message, no symbolism, no social criticism, nothing that the contemporary intelligentsia has come to expect on foreign films.
Another advantage this book has over the ordinary reference work: it is not always and maddeningly changing the subject. Those still incurious about ANACREONTICS, TRANSFERRED EPITHETS, INSCAPE, PARNASSIANISM, PASTORALS, PASSION PLAYS or PASTICHE, and all the trade terminology of literary criticism from Aristotle to Harry Levin to John Crowe Ransom...