Word: symbolisme
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Helmut Kautner's Sky Without Stars, a story about despair in the divided Germanies, won the first prize at the Berlin Film Festival. Somewhat surprisingly, it is a flat-footed film with plodding photography and drab symbolism; the plot line (roughly Romeo and Juliet) has been reworked often enough; at...
Symbolism was rampant. In the hope of aiding African unity, Mali deliberately matched its colors to the red, yellow and green of the flags of Guinea and Ghana. The horizontal black, white and red stripes of Upper Volta stand, appropriately enough, for the three rivers called the Black, White and...
Conformity v. Individualism, however seems much less a theme than a mere gimmick, exactly as picturing the bride as the Sleeping Beauty seems facile fancy rather than vital symbolism. Whatever the play may thematically profess, much of it theatrically is just old Wilde in new bottles: the triangle, in A...
Lockspeiser, who has written a biography of Debussy, said "his life-long obsession" with the writings of Poe influenced the "musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over...
Certainly neither SANE nor any of the disarmament splinter groups has a clear idea of what they should do, although most think they know what should be done. What new techniques for activism can be used to meet this new situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques...