Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always call the Court of St. James's the Court of St. James? It happens so often that it cannot be a typographical error. . . . Is it a symbol of contempt for accuracy in general or of the British for being conservative? Do you hope to change the established usage by misleading a generation of school children...
...liquor firm, of Julius Wile Sons & Co. spent two years persuading the Le Grand family that it could do a better job by aging the two together. Last week Julius Wile got the first shipment, bottled in the ancient bottle devised by the monks and bearing the traditional Benedictine symbol-D.O.M. (for Deo Optimo Maximo, "To God most good most great...
...dreams and in researches he made among theological, philosophical and mystical works, Dr. Jung found the quaternity symbol everywhere. The square, the circle, the mystic squared circle suggest four; the Buddhist mandala-symbol is usually a circular lotus containing a square building with four gates; there are four seasons, four points of the compass, four Evangelists, etc. In the patient's dream of the "world clock" appeared "four little men," just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours...
Remained as symbol for, and reason...
...stressing the influence of symbols Arnold does not, as has been claimed, fail to see the enormous strides men have made through rational thinking. He realizes that the progress of physical science has been aided by the existence of a symbol like "men in white" which, in conflicts between tradition and modern methods, has thrown the balance in favor of rational thinking. Arnold's point is that there has been a delay in developing a symbol in the field of social science that enables rational thinking to break down the logictight compartments of a Jeffersonian Democrat...