Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delegates from all over the world, 50 of them being Americans. Here Raisz, who studied in Budapest, Hungary, demonstrated his new mapping process which he developed in conjunction with Suderland of Stockholm. Its main principle is that the map surface is divided into type regions, each represented by a symbol which is pictorial and therefore easily recognized...
...Stanford, the University of California, U.C.L.A., and the University of Southern California the name of Harvard is a symbol of smugness. And to Dartmouth--which appears to their Cambridge brothers in study as a formidable part of the one-third of our nation which is "ill-clad, ill-fed, ill-housed"--Harvard represents the high horse of stuffiness...
...Arkansas Traveler (Paramount) carries a dedication, quoted from LIFE, to "William Allen White ... a living symbol of small-town simplicity and kindliness and common sense." Unsentimental cinemaddicts, however, will perceive that the real purpose of the picture is not so much to pay tribute to that celebrated Kansan as to carry its star, Bob Burns, a step closer to the peculiar niche of public approbation once occupied by the late Will Rogers...
Lincoln is the most living and appealing figure in U.S. history because he expresses with the greatest glow the national dream of democracy and freedom. He is therefore, in addition to being a warm, sturdy, exciting human being, a permanent symbol who serves U.S. drama as the house of Atreus served the Greek, or as Faust and Don Juan serve the writers of the world. Lincoln's story is well-known, well-loved, an advantage for the playwright greater than the most smashing plot would be; for an audience bringing with it a quivering mass of associations is ready...
...Freshman who stays around Cambridge awhile or who has heard tell of Harvard from some unfortunate vantage point like New Haven or Hanover can be ignorant of one symbol, one illusion, one catch-phrase commonly associated with New England and Harvard in particular...