Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plaint heard during the French Revolution is still widely applicable today. But perhaps even more pertinent would be a variation: "Oh, democracy, what travesties are perpetrated in thy name!" Everybody all over the world seems to want democracy, at least nominally. It is a coveted political status symbol, a powerful fetish. Yet Jefferson and Burke might very well lose their faith in reason or possibly flip their whigs, if they could survey some of the systems that today take democracy's name in vain...
...surface, at least, the ecumenists had much to cheer about. After four days of discussion at Lexington, Ky., they agreed that the role of bishops must be preserved in the merger as a "symbol and agent of the continuity of the church." Without a dissenting vote, the consultation authorized six clerics to prepare an "outline of a possible plan of union" for next year's meeting in Dallas. Three Negro Methodist churches expressed interest in becoming full-time partners...
...more basic flaw of the film is evidenced in the climactic cry of anguish that sounds Sol Nazerman's re-entry into the human race but echoes mostly as a triumph for Actor Steiger. Saddled with dialogue better suited to a symbol, Steiger speaks it like a man, succeeding so well that the character incriminates himself. This misanthropic pawnbroker has suffered no more than millions of Jews; he is simply meaner in spirit, a wretched and pitiable case study wearing the tragic mask...
...Reading his rambling conversational essay is like sitting down with an interesting fellow in the dining hall; the talk's not too precise, the reforms not necessarily related to the evil attacked, but the spirit of engagement, the sense of concern is there. Indeed the dining table is the symbol of Gordon's pain-killer for the migraine of specialization; beef up the community because students will be most liberally educated by their friends. The houses not the curriculum must be the bastions of liberal undergraduate education...
...minds of all, the castle is the symbol and focus for uneasy atavistic dreams of combat. Then the big guns begin to sound. Out of the falling snow, through a village straight out of a Breughel painting, comes the American army in headlong retreat, and the misfits of the 314th find themselves the only organized defense short of the Meuse. Bumbling and burlesquing the role of soldiers, they fight. For what? A confused dream, a bit of bread, a friend, a stone wall, a laugh...