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...deposit our sensations, which are themselves imbued with a specific social resonance, in the work. In this manner, a novel survives through time, and achieves a distinctive life in each epoch. So, if La Recherche du Temps Perdu stands neglected on the shelves, it still possesses an immense value, emblem of an irretrievable moment when such novels could be read...
Originally four Houses-Adams Dunster, Eliot and Quincy-were stocked, and marked with the yellow and black Civil Defense emblem. Today, three of those signs remain. Civil Defense authorities stopped replacing the sign on Dunster House after it was stolen for the third time...
...WASHINGTON. In 1964, Washington Democrat Albert D. Rosellini was defeated in a third-term try by Liberal Republican Daniel J. Evans. Now Incumbent Evans, 47, is completing eight years himself and seeking twelve-and being challenged by Old-Liner Rosellini, 62. Rosellini's familiar red rose campaign emblem and "Return Rosellini" signs appeal to older voters once more, and Evans is in trouble...
...viable candidate won him his primaries, and insured his victory at Miami Beach: the antiwar left and the minorities For as David Kolodney noted in a recent Ram parts article McGovern has not been delivered to this coalition as a consolation prize; he is instead the first mainstream emblem of its growing political power. This coalition now has the political muscle to nominate the Democratic Party candidate. Whether it has the muscle to elect a President remains an open question...
Visual Parallel. Typically, each of Johnson's works focuses on one central emblem, stained into an unstretched canvas that hangs, like a banner, on the wall: an orange-gold cone hovering in a void of purplish red; an exhilarating surge of scrolling ocherous waves, speckled with jade and malachite green. Johnson is an exceptional colorist, both astringent and opulent, and his work-like many a Tibetan tanka or Indonesian temple door-makes no bones about its decorative aspect. Yet behind this seduction of the eye is a strange impersonality, as though Johnson's role in painting them...