Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Without regard to their source, or to the Willkie candidacy, Harrison Spangler, genial symbol of professional Republicanism, could well ponder these words as a considerable answer to the Republican dilemma...
...films in years. It begins with a close-up of a foundering ship's funnel that might stand for the end of an era. Then the camera closely meditates a dissolving frieze of floating debris, and lifts its eye to frame, in the light of predawn, its compact symbol of our time: a damaged boat, its compass smashed, its sole occupant a trullish photojournalist who has lived through so much that she calls herself "practically immortal." Further survivors clamber aboard, masked and anonymous with floating oil. As the little boat gets moving, the film suggests Poet E. E. Cummings...
...symbol of postwar Germany, clutches the lifeboat, is hauled aboard. Cinemactresses Mary Anderson and Tallulah Bankhead rush to help him. "Kill him!" cry the men - among whom only the gentle radio operator (Hume Cronyn) has any doubt. As the trembling boy holds them at bay with his water-soaked pistol, the Negro disarms him. They debate whether or not to kill him. Tallulah Bankhead recalls the man the German captain drowned and a young mother (Heather Angel) who was pulled aboard the lifeboat, later jumped over board after her dead baby. When Lifeboat ends, they are still debating, like...
...Welcomed his good friend Leighton McCarthy, ex-Canadian Minister to the U.S.-now promoted to Ambassador as a symbol of closer U.S.-Canadian relations...
...used roughneck will remain a disquieting figure until society remolds him, a challenging subject until literature really plumbs his depths. South Pacific deserves respect for taking an unblinking look at Sam, gains in interest by portraying him in the teeth of war. But it produces only a plausible symbol, not a flesh-&-blood human being. Sam is made too articulate about what ails him and not convincing enough about why he alters. Nor does the play, which distrusts the shock tactics of melodrama, possess the skill to be vivid for long without...