Word: symbolisme
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Unlike most Broadway plays. The Gambler tries to say something. But though Playwright Betti shows metaphysical courage, he has little dramatic force. What with rhetorical flights on wings that collapse, and philosophical depth bombs that refuse to explode, the play is at most an interesting dud. It has suggestions of...
At one level, The Natural is a preposterously original and readable story about life on & off the diamond. On another level, Novelist Malamud juggles symbolism and cloudy language to suggest the tragic limitations of the average American dream. He is better when his creatures are playing baseball than when they...
Painter Bosch's versions of Hell are waist-deep in griffins, scarabs, metallic demons with forked tails, sinners whose truncated bodies are pierced by huge swords or impaled on giant musical instruments. Although he had his gentler moments on canvas, his earthly scenes abound in abandoned lovers, tortured sick...
AT the moment, the work consists of a three-volume treatise on alchemy-part of a veritable library of esoteric and clinical literature which Jung hopes to leave behind as his testament to humanity. This may seem a somewhat bizarre occupation for a psychiatrist. But Jung explains that alchemy is...
*"... [You cannot] represent the unpretentious and democratic Christ by the priestly symbolism of a modern Roman Catholic bishop, arrayed in purple and supported by a totalitarian system of religion, which wallows in luxury, pageantry and power . . ."