Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scenes as the combat at "El Capitain", it often makes mystery where we do not feel that mystery should exist. Each detall, each motion of the characters, has been carefully planned and visualized, but these details and motions are thrown into the realm of crude sensation or ill-defined symbol for the sake of intensity. The reader, who cannot fully share the intensity either of authors or characters, is occasionally mystified as a result. A more external treatment for the bulk of the story should make the incidents more real. But the effect as the story stands is considerable...
...represents beauty in design with economy of construction and absence of excessive ornamentation. This is why President Lowell and Dean Donham of the Business School selected its type of architecture to dominate the group which Bishop Lawrence says "will be a great symbol of what right business means to the nation and a great memorial to the part great business men have played in the development of the country from Colonial times to the present day." Thomas Jefferson's design for the University of Virginia buildings has influenced the architecture of the most striking building...
Sebastiani Rondi is a Sicilian lawyer, a resident of Palermo, where the lemons come from. Maurice Maeterlinck* is a Belgian poet, whose symbol is The Blue Bird, and whose greatest work is The Life of the Bee. The poet took a trip through Sicily a short time ago and then wrote about it. Avvocato Rondi read Maeterlinck's opinion of Rondi's home town. Result: Rondi challenged the poet to a duello...
...Labor Government of Ramsay MacDonald has apparently accomplished, among its other feats, something not wholly political. Whether consciously in order to smooth the way of affairs of state, or unconsciously as a sign of the times, the Carleton Club of London, which in the popular mind is the symbol of all that is most sacred to the British aristocracy, threw open its doors last week to some fifty odd sons of toil and bade them welcome to its Saturday luncheon. For one short hour, at least, the muezzin did not chant his "procul, o procul este, profani," from the holy...
...recall today the memorable phrase in which you have described the University graduates as "the living Harvard force." And as our birthday gift it is my privilege to present to you, in behalf of the Alumni Association, a symbol of that "living force" a copy of the new Alumni Directory, bound in crimson leather, containing the names of all living Harvard men, numbering more than 43,000. We trus, that it may be to you a fireside friend, speaking to you as the voice of Harvard; and that in the sunshine of the morning and the quiet of the evening...