Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mask of anguish in Marsden Hartley's The Lost Felice hides a different sort of grief. It is a symbol of womanhood mourning her drowned sons. The 20th century's passion for abstraction makes any representational figure seem accessibly human, but the grieving mother in Hartley's picture resembles a woman only in the way that an eerie echo resembles a voice. The intentional distortions of the 1939 picture ironically complete the cycle begun with the unintentional distortions of the 1670 picture. Perhaps fittingly, the decline of portraiture ends without a portrait...
...that if Khrushchev can clearly establish his mastery over Peking, he will then try to re-establish his mastery over Eastern Europe. In this dilemma, Moscow last week turned, ironically, to Yugoslavia's Tito, the man who by his defiance of Stalin in 1948 made himself the very symbol of "national Communism." Tito knew that only some 50 of the possible 90 major Communist parties in the world were willing to follow the Moscow line against China. Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary might go along with the idea of a conference, but would hardly support a dramatic expulsion of China...
...House seats ran at large. In last week's Democratic pri mary, Elliott, 51, stood ninth and, after seven House terms, was turned out of office. Just to underline their point, Alabama Democrats nominated Birmingham's former police commissioner, Eugene ("Bull") Connor, an interna tional symbol of segregation, for the presidency of the utility-regulating state public service commission...
...cigars used to be Wall Street's symbol, but today they're the stuff that comrades are made of. Soviet U.N. Delegate Nikolai Fedorenlco, 52, lit up his Empresa Consolidada at a World's Fair luncheon last week, puffed a cloud of smoke at his U.S. counterpart, Adlai Stevenson, 64, and chuckled, "It's a Havana, of course, the best. Revolutionary!" Lately, however, Fedorenko has been indulging in a pretty counterrevolutionary bourgeois-capitalist deviation. In the Security Council, he has been seen chomping American chewing gum; and who knows, if word of that gets back...
...accepted death as a just price for the gift of life. He is the voice of all whose worship goes to no Creator but to Creation itself. When he came to write his will, Rilke included a lyrical conundrum in which life and death became one in the symbol of the rose, whose loveliness contains nothing...