Word: symbolisme
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Farce From lonesco. The anger in Albee's The American Dream is less restrained, although the one-hour work begins as a sort of surrealistic situation comedy about a prosperous bourgeois family. The dialogue is a wildly hilarious melange of clichés, inanities and redundancies. Vacuous, tyrannical Mommy...
lonesco's giving conformity a rhinoceros-hiding is a bold bit of symbolism and a funny thought for satire. But what is funny about rhinoceroses is to the same degree farfetched; lonesco's satire never proves very expressive or illuminating; men turn into rhinoceroses without turning into anything...
Symbolism introduces an element beyond abstract design and structure. The symbol of the cross is the heritage of all Christians. I find the tilted cross in the interior of the Hope Lutheran Church in Daly City, Calif, disturbing, from the point of view of both design and symbolism. It introduces...
Havana's government-operated television station CMQ presented an unusual Nativity scene for Cubans to ponder last week. Above the building's entrance was a painting of a peasant couple watching the newborn babe in the manger. Overhead, a light bulb screwed into his forehead, beamed the face...
Arthur Koestler undoubtedly has a marvelous mind, but his most recent pronouncements regarding the futility of looking to Asia for enlightenment and spiritual guidance seem exceedingly irresponsible, unfair and misleading. By dwelling on the extremes of Oriental religions and their mystifying mysticism, he grossly distorts the wisdom of the East...