Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas ritual of Poland, the first rising star of Christmas Eve is greeted with the glad kolenda (carol) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy (In the Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take...
Nevertheless, it was as plain as a New Deal deficit to a Republican wheelhorse that in his exile Herbert Hoover had made himself a symbol of the Republican Party. To the dismay of many an ardent Republican, to the positive frenzy of some, in spite of the efforts of a few, he had gone up & down through his seven years with the fortunes of the party itself. Dignified, unbending, difficult in his personal relations, vulnerable to attack, sensitive to slights, losing votes by his stiffness as fast as he won them by his integrity and intelligence, he remained the symbol...
...worth of unfilled orders that had piled up in 40 days, an anticipated 1939 gross of $600,000, net of $150,000. Portable derricks seem to be catching on. Humble Oil Co. has ordered an initial two. If enough U. S. producers figure the same way, the derrick, ugly symbol of a fabulous industry, may disappear from the skyline...
...those parchments time set a greater seal. Keystone of English liberty, the Magna Charta became the symbol of government by law, of justice that may not be sold or delayed, of security for free men. All guarantees that have followed it, say historians, are but footnotes and commentary...
Small, round-faced Dr. Louis Wirth, University of Chicago sociologist, declared that urbanism-the big city problem-enters into almost every major problem of modern society. "Our cultures are still many, but our civilization is one. The city is the symbol of that civilization. We will either master this ominously complicated entity or perish under...