Word: symbolisme
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Marcus Goodrich was famous in New York literary circles ten years ago for his golden tongue. He used to talk this book in evenings of inspired storytelling. In it he put his experience on a destroyer in the last war, heightened by his study of Melville's towering symbolism...
Paul Bowles's music is a good deal more mature than this allegorical scheme, but it, too, is lacklustre. On the credit side is Designer Raoul Pene du Bois's most effective setting, a chill, ominous picture of dawn in the park, which is never matched by anything...
Geography usually means a big bookful of maps and statistics behind which crafty schoolboys munch apples. But last week Ohio State University's Geographer Roderick Peattie, elder brother of rhapsodic Botanist Donald Culross Peattie (A Prairie Grove, Audubon's America, etc.), explained geography to grownups. Geography in Human...
This smooth, dark story takes place in a house and garden near Paris on a spring afternoon of the late '20s. The human creatures are seven: two Mediterranean servants who rut in the garden, two highly civilized Americans who platonize in the house, an ill-matched Irish couple who...
A critical estimate of the artistic value of the piece would require a greater knowledge of Chinese art than I have. It is impossible to give an intelligible and solid account of such a monument without understanding its symbolism, characters, and historical background. I suggest, however, that for these very...