Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fishwife Solon, Bella Abzug, is not a figure of fun but a frightening symbol of what political standards in this country have declined to. This rude, raucous and profane woman debases the democratic process and brings home to us the truth that what is popular is not necessarily palatable...
Best to keep things as they are. So Joe is left locked in his hospital room, banging out his pitiful message, a barely surviving symbol of human barbarism...
...page he can call his ship a golden paper swan, and on another, a floating haystack. Steering oars snapped with annoying regularity, and two days out a squall cracked the yard, carrying the 26-ft.-high wine-colored sail with a rust-red sun painted on it: the symbol of Ra. When the whole structure of papyrus and ropes expanded and contracted, it sounded, Heyerdahl confessed, like 100,000 copies of the Sunday New York Times being torn to shreds...
...soldiers' home, Willy recalls a confusion of dates, events, cultural artifacts and personal history. It is as if the roll of film in a home movie had been doubly and triply exposed. Willy is not un like an Uncle Sam suffering from advanced arterial sclerosis - a symbol of a nation that sometimes seems to have gone from a vigorous, righteous innocence to a befuddled old age in less than 100 years...
Garcia Lorca's heroine, Yerma (derived from the Spanish word yermo, meaning barren), is a symbol of the life force frustrated by morality. Longing for children, unable to conceive them with her husband and unwilling to attempt infidelity, she laments with truly operatic passion. Finally, when her husband admits that he is sterile and has used her for sexual rather than procreative purposes, she strangles...