Word: symbolisme
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In the early 17th century, Puritans from Holland and England crossed to America, and when the first colonial confederation was formed for mutual safety in 1643 among Plymouth, Massachusetts, New Haven and Connecticut, Tower believes, a flag of four red stripes was adopted and flown from coastal trading vessels as...
Haya, a brilliant theorist, gave Apra a philosophy dizzyingly compounded of anti-U.S. nationalism, Marxism, reverence for the Incas, Nazi symbolism and even Einstein's theory of relativity as applied by Haya to history. Fighting back bloodily against the suppressive tactics of a series of dictators, Apra earned...
Died. Paul Claudel, 86, French diplomat, poet, playwright (The Hostage, The Satin Slipper, Tidings Brought to Mary) and member of the French Academy; of a heart attack; in Paris. Claudel entered the diplomatic service and wrote his first play (The Exchange) when he was 25, served in a variety of...
Symbols & Style. In the past, hardly anyone ever suspected Hemingway novels of symbolism. Then, in The Old Man and the Sea, people saw symbols-the old man stood for man's dignity, the big fish embodied nature, the sharks symbolized evil (or maybe just the critics).
SIGNS AND SYMBOLS IN CHRISTIAN ART, by George Ferguson (346 pp.; Oxford; $10), explains the symbolism of the great Renaissance religious paintings so clearly as to make many of the world's best-known pictures take on fresh meaning.