Word: symbols
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What is a myth? In Campbell's academic jargon, it is a dreamlike "symbol that evokes and directs psychological energy." A vivid story or legend, it is but one part of a larger fabric of myths that, taken together, form a mythology that expresses a culture's attitude toward life, death and the universe around it. The Greek myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man, thus symbolizes the race's aspirations, even when they conflict with the powers of nature. The almost contemporary Hebrew myth of the trials...
...years old, was born in Chile of Russian-Polish parents, studied mime under Marcel Marceau, has operated a theater in Mexico City where he also writes a weekly comic strip. Tired of "working with flesh" as a stage director, Jodorowsky made his first movie in order to "work with symbols." "John Wayne is a symbol, not a man," he explains. "For me, a picture must not have poetry, but epic poetry. Search for archetypes. I go it alone...
FIRE SERMON, by Wright Morris. An 82-year-old codger tries to save his eleven-year-old great-nephew's soul from the modern world during a symbol-paved journey in a trailer hitched to an ancient Maxwell...
...fragmentation of empire. This season, in The Contractor, which recently concluded a U.S. première engagement at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater and is scheduled to open in San Francisco on March 14, Storey uses the raising and striking of a huge tent as the symbol of the rise and fall of national greatness. In a still larger sense, the tent is emblematic of the vanity of human wishes-in art, in politics, in science, in business, in love, in life. As it flaps to the stage floor at the end of the play like a great...
...what could be Japan's most significant policy shift since V-J day, the world's third mightiest industrial power is reining in its breakneck drive for economic growth. Many industrialists and economists have joined with Matsushita, himself the symbol of Japan's high-growth ideology, in calling for a slower, steadier pace. Kazutaka Kikawada, chairman of the Tokyo Electric Power Co., complains that Japan's growth drive has led to a "flippant materialism," destroyed much of the country's beauty, and created environmental devastation that threatens to lead to social disruptions. Adds Professor...