Word: symbolisme
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Jean Cocteau's Orpheus winds up a long run at the 55th Street Playhouse (near Seventh). Replete with international awards, often imaginative symbolism, and sometimes stunning originality, this adaptation of the Greek legend to modern dress and psychology has added considerably to the reputation of France's jack-of-all...
The symbolism of Blume's picture-a huge, broken rock with scaffolding to the left of it and ruins to the right-is as obscure as his brushwork is precise. Blume, who at 44 looks rather like a dead-earnest Danny Kaye, believes "the rock symbol is bound to...
In case I misinterpreted the symbolism, I would be very grateful for your letting me know the correct meaning of the "hordes."
The play is lightly splashed with irony and symbolism; beyond his other functions, the soldier, with his yowling for the noose, exemplifies a certain dogged modern-day pessimism. But the play is not to be dredged for large meanings. It says, if it says anything, that life itself is a...
Of them all, Melville best exemplified this style in his consistent use of concrete language and novel phraseology. Wilder described Melville's symbolism as still disputed by scholars but strong because of its specific imagery. "The fireside talks" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wilder said, are a modern example of...