S. I. Hayakawa Quotes:
Ocupation: Former United States Senator
Life: July 18, 1906 - February 27, 1992
Birthday: July 18
Death: February 27
In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that a play is a set of fictional, symbolic representations. An actor is one who symbolizes other people, real or imagined. [...] Also some years ago it was reported that when Edward G. Robinson, who used to play gangster roles with extraordinary vividness, visited Chicago, local hoodlums would telephone him at his hotel to pay their professional respects.
source: "Language in Thought and Action". Book by S. I. Hayakawa (p.27-28), 1991.
topic: Real, Drama, Years, Symbolic, Vividness
