Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assumes that Celestino's four pains are merely Montherlant's notion of a heart attack. Not so. The police come, flip poor Celestino over, and discover "four thin clean holes which might have been made by a knife or sword." Has Celestino been murdered in some highly symbolic fashion? Apparently not; nor is there any hint that the supernatural is involved. Celestino's death is, rather, superliterary. He is the first character in the history of the novel to be killed by a wholly nonexistent symbol. This is artistic anarchy, which is not a satisfactory...
...women and children of Harvard University have at last stormed the final symbol, have brought about, as if accidentally, the first blushing dawn of the new regime. Lamont has been penetrated...
...they came-purple-turbaned Indians, saffron-robed Ghanaians, Bermudians in (what else?) Bermuda shorts, Americans in L.B.J. hats, Russians waving red ribbons at the cheering crowd. Trumpets blared, cannons roared, and screaming jets traced the five-ringed Olympic symbol in the sky. Onto the rust-colored track at Tokyo's National Stadium trotted Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old student who was born near Hiroshima just hours after the atomic bomb fell on the city. Carrying aloft the blazing Olympic torch, Sakai bounded up a flight of 179 steps, thrust it into a cauldron of oil. Flames leapt...
...early Lowell was more flamboyant. His verse was intricately allegorical and grandly rhetorical, as in the killing of the great white whale, that symbol of suffering, in The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket...
...compassion. Lowell's compassion has been tested. Great chunks of his life have been spent in misery and in mental asylums (an experience he has duly and dispassionately recorded in a poem). Now, for the first time, he has kind words for his father; for Jonathan Edwards, symbol of rigid Puritanism; even for that total tyrant, Caligula: ". . . yours the lawlessness/ Of something simple that has lost...