Word: symbolisme
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The Senate can still bypass the Committee's shortsighted action by voting funds sufficient to keep America's views on the air, if only for a few minutes a day. It would mean taking a stand that is unpopular yet necessary, lest the world read more than a casual symbolism...
The moonlight chilliness of his mood, his refusal to soften the deepening ambiguities of truth (as he saw it), the pitiless obsession of his God-seeking, and the scary symbolism in which he embodied his God-seeking, have kept Kafka from becoming a popular writer. Yet readers with the requisite...
Barron Beshoar called on a Denver businessman to get his views on the international situation. The man gave him a long look, hrrmphed, reached toward the floor beside his desk and came up with a huge Spanish onion. "Here," he said, "have one." That ended the interview. If any symbolism...
Again in Austryn Wainhouse's "The Cigarette Lighter," the addition of editorial perspective to the author's marked literary and dramatic talents could have saved the story from its present confusion. It is the longest work in "Radditudes," and most ambitious; its study of a student suffering from some sort...
The lion, a fairly obvious symbol of adolescent terrors and stirrings, is shot and killed in the end. Molly accidentally gets in the way of Ralph's shot, is killed at the same time-which is pretty dank symbolism and practically plain nonsense in any other terms. At her...