Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lanny Budd, a sort of contemporary Renaissance Prince, is half-symbol, half-character. Pinkish, amiable, charming, and vaguely uneasy about his softness, he plays prince consort to his rich bride Irma, who in turn plays salonnière in a million-franc-per-year Parisian palace, and who is a comic-strip X-ray of heiress mentality...
...crafty reasons to feel that he has protectors among the Nazis, and in all their conflicting camps. At length, of course, he is framed, robbed, imprisoned. He and other Jews are stuffed with strong purgatives, stripped, and forced to flog each other's buttocks. Johannes Robin is a symbol of that international class myopia which bankrolled Naziism-a bland, would-be-guileful sower of "dragon's teeth...
Even the steel frames of factories and shipways now abuilding are quietly welded together. Silenced for good is the awful din of the structural riveter who clattered up against the U.S. sky in the '20s, a splendid symbol and at the same time an infernal nuisance...
...fall of France challenged other values. France was more than a country. It was source and symbol of the most gracious, rational and rarified in Western civilization. In this sense, when France fell, night fell. To this dark fact men tried to readjust themselves in books like Arthur Koestler's Scum of the Earth ($2.50); Hans Habe's A Thousand Shall Fall ($3); Thomas Kernan's able and objective France on Berlin Time...
...observatory is significant in many ways," writes Professor Bok. "It represents first of all an important addition to the list of American observatories. . . In Mexico it stands as a symbol of the new Mexico. . . and for us in the United States it stands in a way as a symbol of Pan-Americanism...