Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mercedes has long ruled the autobahn as a symbol of affluence for West Germany's economic Wunderkinder. Though still the most elegant German car on the road, Mercedes is now being challenged by a brash newcomer. Last week German auto buyers began to place orders for a set of autos created specifically to overtake Mercedes. The challenger is Opel, General Motors' West German subsidiary and Europe's most exciting automaker...
Seventy-four lines of this is too much. The central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...
...improved with age. O'Neill's idea was to cast Marco Polo as the go-getting, money-grubbing Babbitt from Polo Bros., Venice, whose travels to Cathay and the kingdom of Kublai Khan result in a grand confrontation of Eastern and Western values. More symbol than satire, the play is a contrived collision of abstractions rather than a felt conflict of human beings...
...Neill's symbol of the West, Marco stands for greed, hypocrisy, ravening ambition, hard-nosed practicality and blind materialism. For the East, the Great Khan and his court personify beauty, love, wisdom, art, and an all-illuminating spirituality. No one can play, in dramatic terms, with such loaded dice. The Lincoln Center Repertory revival salvages what it can by turning Marco into a handsomely mounted, lavishly costumed Marcorama...
...Pyongyang. The advancing United Nations forces have just occupied the city. The narrator is a South Korean political intelligence officer, who is entrusted with the job of investigating the deaths of twelve Christian ministers executed by the retreating Communists. Before they can be used for propaganda purposes as a symbol of spiritual triumph, however, the captain must discover why 14 ministers were arrested and only twelve died...