Word: symbolisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Greater Than Mozart? An ungainly giant of a man ("No land, nor clime, nor age/ Have equaled this harmonious boar," wrote one acquaintance in reference to his overeating), Germany's Handel became a symbol of beefy British solidity. Since his death, he has often been thought of as a kind of stodgy musical ecclesiastic, partly because of the ceremonial repetition of his Messiah, partly because of Handel's own susceptibility to mawkishly awkward texts-most notably in the numerous bird songs like "Hark! 'Tis the linnet and the thrush" in Joshua...
...step process of converting colonies into nations. Last week, in the most characteristic ruling gesture she can make, Elizabeth II, accompanied by her consort and a retinue of 31 ladies, maids and retainers, began an exhaustive, exhausting Canadian tour to show herself as the Commonwealth's cohesive symbol not only to the leaders but especially to the plain people of Canada...
...Queen, to most Canadians, is particularly precious as "something we have that the Americans don't have." Explained a businessman: "We Canadians need a symbol to rally round." And he added tartly: "On the U.S. scene there is a vacuum. After all, you can't rally round the country's most prominent golfer...
...persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Charlotte (N.C.) Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible instruction from Billy en route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said. "I hope it has meaning for the future." Russian tourists, gaping at paintings of Jesus Christ in the Kremlin's Cathedral of the Assumption, equally astonished him. "A tender, moving thing . . . Never, never did I expect to find this in the Kremlin...
Citation: "'Leader of the new Negro,' whose approach to controversial problems has been with determination but without anger, whose role in this nation has become a world symbol...