Word: symbolization
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...confident that the State Department will rule in his favor. The increasing friendliness between the Reagan Administration and the regime in Pretoria makes Brutus and his supporters uneasy. As a staff member at TransAfrica, a Black-American lobbying group, says, many view the attempt to deport Brutus "as another symbol of the Administration's growing closeness with South Africa...
...scene was an all too familiar tintype of armed repression and political turmoil, a fitting symbol for the upheaval of the decade. Staccato bursts of gunfire echoed through the streets. Clouds of tear gas hung in the air. A phalanx of blue-shirted policemen, equipped with gas masks and steel helmets, blocked the avenue in downtown Guatemala City. They trained their rifles on the six unarmed men who were advancing, like prisoners of war, with their arms held high. One of them clutched a large manila folder. Its contents: a letter to Guatemala's outgoing President, General Fernando Romeo Lucas...
Mitterrand and his wife Danielle were driven through the Judean hills to the entrance to Jerusalem for a customary Hebrew ceremony in which they were served bread ("symbol of equality and community," the French President said), salt ("symbol of the spirit that will always prevail") and wine ("symbol of the rites that bring together the faithful"). There was an awkward but quickly forgotten moment when Mayor Teddy Kollek chided Mitterrand for refusing to visit disputed East Jerusalem, the Arab sector that Israel now claims as part of its capital. Afterward, the French President met with Begin for a talk that...
...producers are seldom content to let hell enough alone. Vocal references to rape are accompanied by screams and wails; at the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony-a wartime symbol for victory-the screen fills with hundreds of Morse code Vs, dots and dashes rendered in red, white and blue. As Taylor recites Pavel Friedman's famous ghetto poem, The Butterfly, an animated sun fills a small room, and a Disneyesque creature flaps through, cheapening a transcendent human document...
...Propositions," the book's short introduction, he posits that art is itself "the process by which value was created, revolutions made." From numerous philosophers Cantor develops the idea not that art is more important than politics, but that they are the same thing: "Politics, work, all human culture is symbol formation, is poetry." Though Cantor begins, like so many theorists, with the need to apologize for the arts, his conclusion is fresh and rings true...