Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Birds of Paradise, by Paul Scott. A down-and-out middle-aged man is ob sessed by the memory of a summer house full of beautiful stuffed birds: a symbol of the rich confusion of his childhood in India...
...long cherished the "neighborhood school," a concept as American as apple pie. It is the simple idea that children are best served by their own local school-a school that they can walk to. a living symbol of local roots, pride and progress. Now this idea is under sharp attack because it means that where neighborhoods are segregated by race, schools...
...caught and tortured by the Japanese in Malaya, he counsels them, ''Hang on to your lives," wondering as he does so if he should have said "courage," then swiftly dismissing the thought with a snappish phrase: "But that is all fable." Stuffed Symbols. Despite this, Conway finds himself teased, almost obsessed, by his childhood's most sensual memory-the vision of an Indian summerhouse full of perfectly stuffed birds of paradise, those rare and fabulous creatures about which it was once believed that because they were too beautiful for earth, they had no feet and so must...
...reflect this in The Petty Demon, Sologub torments Peredonov with a symbol of his own and the world's baseness, embodied in the shifting form of a bogy-like hallucination called a nedotykomka-"a person one can't touch." At first Peredonov tries to catch and destroy the nedotykomka. But his rage to destroy it-like all petty human rage and resentment, according to Sologub-is part of the dark inheritance from Cain. It becomes a rage to destroy everything. Peredonov is doomed...
...Peredonovism" (greediness, egotism, pettiness and lechery), Sologub's gloomy symbol became part of the Russian language. But the fame of his creature brought the author only temporary comfort. The bearers of the hammer and sickle did not take to Sologub's fin de siecle literary notions. After the 1917 Revolution, Sologub's works were put on the Soviet index. He died, penniless and in despair, in 1927. It was only four years ago that the Soviet Union finally permitted The Petty Demon to be reissued-in a small printing of authors prudently labeled "enemies of the nation...