Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Castle in Vienna became a symbol in the Arab-Israeli struggle last month when Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky promised Arab terrorists to close it down to Soviet Jews in return for the release of three hostages (TIME, Oct. 15). But so far, Kreisky has taken no steps to impede the flow of Jewish emigrants to and through the transit camp; instead, he has increased security at the camp and assigned gendarmes and plainclothes policemen to guard trains carrying emigrants from the moment they cross into Austria...
...role of women in society. Friedan spent four minutes in a private audience with Pope Paul VI, urging him to accord women "personhood." The Pope thanked her for the work she had done on behalf of women and accepted as a gift a brass Women's Lib symbol. Said Friedan to the Pope: "As you see, this makes a different kind of cross." Friedan avoided dogmatic issues like birth control and divorce, maintaining that "the meeting was the message." But she did have one real ideological problem: whether she should cover her head. Rejecting what she described...
Competition for the movie's worst moment is fierce. Young's recurring character, a hippie graduated from college, wandering the roads, the deserts and beaches with grimy diploma and tattered cap and gown in hand, is a symbol--do you get it?--of America's unfulfilled youth. Picture, if you can, the affluent but over-schooled, over-technologized, overburdened young man cast from the best university like a body thrown from a car--which occurs on screen, believe it or not--into a landscape where society has eroded nature's richness. No one gives him directions. No one gives...
...film fails dismally on four grounds. First, there is no human dimension to the characters depicted in the movie. The real people Young films and the characters Young creates either say the obvious things you're afraid they will say or stand only as lifeless symbols in Young's moving picture puzzle. There's no justification for the use of people in these roles. For all Young uncovers about the dehumanized college graduate, he might as well have put a "College Graduate" sign around a rock and used that for his symbol...
...become a no-longer-useful and hence disposable double agent for them. Amsterdam is filled with other people who seem to bounce off him at random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers a controlling symbol, the reiterated memory of the ten minutes in the sunlit, walled garden in Mexico in 1939 when Trotsky was murdered with an Alpine pick. Ramon Mercader is death-obsessed which gives it its greatest strength. ∙ Horace Judson