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Greater Glory. The greatest obstacles to Scottish independence in the past have come from the Scots' own jaundiced view of themselves, as plain and prickly as the thistle, the Scots' emblem. For centuries they have resented their position as a nation of 5 million people with its own language, democratic tradition and legal system, but without so much as a single self-governing political body. "We have an entire nation that has been submerged into believing it is inferior," says Author Robert Shirley, 46, of Edinburgh's Heriot-Watt University. Recalls Hugh MacDiarmid, the country...
...Legend. His full name was Solomon Isaievich Hurok. To his friends he was Sol. To the public, though, it was "S. Hurok Presents," an emblem that invariably appeared atop the newspaper ad, billboard poster or concert program. Beneath it ran names like Artur Rubinstein, Isaac Stern, Margot Fonteyn, the Royal Ballet, the Old Vic and, of course, the Russians he so ably promoted and profited by in the U.S.: Pavlova, Richter, Oistrakh, the Bolshoi Ballet and Opera...
...nation's most widely published editorial cartoonists. Whether he is shown carrying on both ends of a phone conversation (and listening in on earphones in the middle) or provoking hysterical laughter in a Martian seeking earth's leader, Wright's Nixon is an unvarying emblem of sinister paranoia or clownish ineptitude...
...crowd into a day's appointments, for all the cash he can collect? Here, clearly, the answers involve the most subjective value judgments. With rare exceptions, conscience and cash-consciousness are mixed in widely varying proportions. The one-snake staff of Aesculapius the healer-the official emblem of the American Medical Association-is obviously in conflict with the two-serpent caduceus of Mercury, the god of commerce. Although medical ethics has long been the subject of resounding rhetoric, it has not been effectively taught in medical schools. William Curran, Harvard Professor of Legal Medicine, says: "For years, medical ethics...
...this is the hobby of the fictional personification of Doubt in Nazi Germany, a character, also called Hermann Ott, in Grass's book. Melancholia and the achievement of political "stasis in progress" are two of the themes which dignify the image of the snail into high symbolism. What better emblem could a writer offer for the Jew reluctantly leaving his homeland in the Germany of the thirties than that of the humble snail, bearing his house on his back? You get the idea...