Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...controls. Such is the lingering influence of the frontier that not even a harrowing brush with death will cause one of its sons to lay down his arms or urge others to do so. Never mind that the maniac shoots faster and straighter. The gun is still potent as symbol-and all too often as fact...
Without at least a mail-order course in triadic dialectics, it is best to forgo analysis of Tournier's synthesis. Enough said that it has much to do with his notion that symbols have lives of their own and possess a diabolical potential. Yet in The Ogre, in contrast with his last book, Friday, Tournier seems incapable of expressing an idea without sacrificing art to pedagogy. As an old East Prussian aristocrat says just before the Russians do a Götterdammerung on his castle, "When the symbol devours the thing symbolized, when the cross-bearer becomes the crucified...
...stated that Phoebe Snow was an advertising symbol to promote the Erie Lackawanna Railroad [July...
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...loved the article on "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Woody Allen" [July 3]. It was an experience. The man is a genius. When I finished reading the article, I wanted more and more. I wouldn't exactly call Mr. Allen a sex symbol, but I dig him as my new "mind symbol...