Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What are the ideas in The Rock? Blume believes he has "never made a virtue of obscurity, but there's always more than one level of interpretation to a thing. For instance the rock symbol is bound to be enigmatic. Biblically it's the deity, the source. This rock started out spherical, egg-shaped. Then in the process of working it out I made a fission, a break in it. There's a lot of destruction going on all through the picture-the phosphorescence of decay-but I think the emphasis is on construction. Compositionally the figures...
...hymn to his country, to Texas and to Dallas were also stored away; TIME'S editors and the members of its business departments made their contributions. One of them was a firsthand account of the significant business expansion going on in the Chicago area and a neat symbol thereof: the sign on a Peoria barbershop which read, "Joe's shop is a two-chair shop...
...head of the "Association for the International Registry of World Citizens and People's Assembly." His admirers-in France they are legion-call him le petit homme. In the 26-year-old, carrot-topped, pleasant, shrewd and slightly corny Air Forces veteran they profess to see an authentic symbol of a scared and muddled generation. His intellectual baggage may be designed for air travel, but Garry Davis is no dope. He has a clear, canny mind which constantly surprises his intellectual French colleagues. He used to be a playboy, but now he abstains from smoking, drinks nothing stronger than...
...story is a heavy-footed fantasy about a war orphan (Dean Stockwell) adopted by a singing waiter (Pat O'Brien). Overnight, the boy's hair turns green (in Technicolor). He is a symbol of the tragedy that war inflicts on children. But townspeople grow intolerant of the boy because his green hair makes him "different." ("How would you like your sister to marry someone with green hair...
...helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...