Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very scholarly, very sympathetic biography, Mr. Fay has developed his thesis. He has made Washington the symbol of a social class endowed with that integrity and intelligence which made him the symbol of a nation. But in his analysis the author has never lost sight of the fact that his subject was a man and not a political theory. There are long passages faithfully describing his boyhood which offer valuable insight into the character of the man. In a fine chapter on Washington as a Virginia baron Mr. Fay accomplishes the dual purpose of constructing a Washington of flesh...
Washington, the Commander and Chief of the Continental Army, receives more conventional, but equally engaging treatment. The author brings to the beginnings of the Republic a knowledge and an insight that is particularly grateful in a foreigner. Here Washington appears, not as a political genius, but as a symbol of unity around which the distraught Americans can rally. But he is more than a convenient meeting ground, for he possesses an instinct for public opinion and a knowledge of men that is invaluable to the other founders of the United States. While he lacked the vision of the theorist...
...harm, through its chief executive, by his Pollyannaish attitude or inability to admit the state of affairs throughout. And within the Democratic stronghold, no candidate is more impregnable. Roosevelt will be handicapped neither by the religious or dripping wet sentiments which ruined his predecessor. Owen D. Young is a symbol of that ogre, "Corporation," which is usually delirium tremens to the voter; Ritchie is too wet to appeal to the arid West and South; Baker is disliked in too many quarters; there is no one else...
...Shaw's plays (Captain Brassbound's Conversion). Says Shaw: "She was always a little shy in speaking to me; for talking, hampered by material circumstances, is awkward and unsatisfactory after the perfect freedom of writing between people who can write." This paper love-affair was the symbol of a sincere affection, but the endearments they used might be misconstrued. Shaw says both exaggerated-he from ingrained Irish chivalry, she from stage convention. He called her "dearest and beautifullest," "dearest love"; she called him "sweet-heart," "my beautiful," tried to get him to call her "Nellen," but he wouldn...
...filled every hotel room in town, overflowed into Canada across the river. Some had to sleep in parked Pullmans. All over the city were Wartime Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus huts. The society of the 40 & 8, inner sanctum of the Legion, had brought its French freight car, symbol of the organization. Mascot goats, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, dogs, skunks, burros were displayed everywhere...