Word: symbols
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...guide emphasized, the bridge is also a symbol of triumph over the "revisionists." At the height of the Cultural Revolution, work stopped for two months while rival factions in Nanking argued bitterly over design details. Among other things, the revisionists -they turned out to be the Minister of Railways and several local party officials, all of whom were finally ousted -wanted the roadway to be only eight meters wide (26 feet); they lost-the road is thus a much more generous 19.5 meters (63 feet) wide. The revisionists also saw no need to have three huge red flags...
...course, there never has been a true Age of Reason, a time when everything made sense. Even in the darkest times, some men have embraced as an ideal Plato's famous symbol of Reason: the charioteer masterfully reigning in his two horses, passion and will. But Western civilization has too often made of Plato's metaphor a sort of public memorial, something that men absently tip their hats to on history's Sunday afternoons. Even a man of reason like Santayana was forced to acknowledge man's habitual flight from its rule with his cover phrase...
...claim is that "sometimes I think they (the photographs) reflect me even better than my own words." In fact, Miller looks like he's just been plucked out of formaldehyde. Like a medical specimen preserved for its representative qualities. Miller has been yanked off the shelf to be a symbol of something Smith's readers need, the rebel artist and the great sexual emancipator. But the photographs reveal him gliding into dotage, the dried up version of the former volcano. Smith's a pictures reach a crescendo of inanity with a shot of Miller playing ping pong with a naked...
Ever since King Kong aged enough to be a "classic," aficionados have argued over its implicit motifs. Kong's fall from the world's largest phallic symbol has led some to term the film a parable of unfulfilled sexuality. Others, noting his blackness and her whiteness, have damned the movie as racist. (Aside from its more abstruse symbolism, the film has a Chinese ship's cook named--you guessed it--Charlie. And Kong's New York is devoid of blacks, and his Asian island natives are Africans.) Not to mention the symbolic revolt of the worker, as played by exploited...
...ties with the past prove just as integral as his futuristic influence without forcing lines of cause or chronology. A subscriber to classical mythology, Picasso often lets his fascination with bullfights leave Hemingway's virile temporality for the era of the Minotaur. As a symbol of male sexuality for Picasso, the monster figures in a large number of paradoxically delicate etchings, ranting and raping through beds of Grecian flowers and maidens; sexual prowess incarnate of a man notorious for his series of wives and women. Fluctuating between cultivated neo-Classicism and the primieval wildness of his Iberian style, the works...