Word: symbol
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...property and vested privilege, laming the spirit of man: Mr. Van Wyck Brooks has found in the white whale an image like that of Grendel in Beowulf, expressing the Northern consciousness of the hard fight against the elements; while for the disciple of Jung, the white whale is the symbol of the Unconscious which torments man, and yet is the source of all his proudest efforts." Less tortuous is Mr. Mumford's own interpretation: "The white whale stands for the brute energies of existence, blind, fatal, and overpowering, while Ahab is the spirit of man small and feeble...
...poem is written in some three hundred lines of blank verse and treats of a woman whose soul is one with the soil by which she lives and whose life is a symbol of the universal, earth-impelled life forces. Systole and diastole, spring and autumn are in her the same...
...problem of servitude and point to an escape from the rules and regulations attendant upon procuring a higher education. The beautiful Bryn Mawr damsel lounging on her silken pillows until the Sabbath noon, a buttered roll in one hand and a volume of Aristotle in the other is a symbol of emancipation from the monotonous machinery of the modern institution of learning. Not to be outshone, the Wellesley intellectual blows smoke rings in the safety of a Boston and Albany compartment while she devours Kantian theory and considers herself the apotheosis of the new woman freed from the shackles...
Every hour of every day, millions of people are reading stories in some 1,200 newspapers-stories which begin with two letters, A. P. The man who, more than anyone else, made those two letters a symbol of accuracy and impartiality, died, last week, in his Manhattan home, with his wife and daughter at his bedside. He was 80 years old. He had outlived his two sons, had lived "from the lightning rod to the radio," as he said last year. He had been fighting death since Christmas Day. The only book he ever wrote was Fifty Years a Journalist...
Thus, as the Grey mingles with the Blue on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Republican party may behold the physical symbol of its complete triumph of last November. The willingness of the remnant of the hosts of Lee and Jackson to take part in this occasion of Republican jubilation may be taken to represent the change which came over the south and put such states as Virginia and Texas in the Republican corium. Now the old guards come forward to finish off the picture...