Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background of the day is religious, but the American people have come to observe it as a day of feasting and play." Novelist Fannie Hurst once put it more pungently: "As the American moves farther and farther away from the soil, the reality of Thanksgiving fades into a pale symbol buried beneath an elaborate ceremonial of gastronomies...
...powermen last week as one more potent argument against President Roosevelt's long dreamed-of St. Lawrence seaway-power project, which would threaten with a sceptre-like "yardstick" the great privately owned, steam-powered utility systems of the industrial Northeast. Utilitymen regard the new turbine as a symbol, great as the monumental dams of the several power Authorities, that their own spirit of technological pioneering is not moribund, as friends of Government power claim. As a sound dollars-&-cents weapon against Government control, it reaffirms Thomas Edison's remark: "Steam power is business; hydro power is politics...
Fact is that Lord Halifax has a fine set of those British virtues which the U.S. least understands. So he is considered a symbol of British aristocracy, of the Tories, of feudal England, although he is probably more representative of contemporary England than U.S. Ambassador John Winant is representative of contemporary U.S. life. Many a U.S. citizen fears the influence of British aristocracy, of British stuffiness in U.S. life, as many a Briton hates to think of U.S. movies, U.S. ways, U.S. "vulgarity" influencing British culture. Of the two, the American is the touchier. If some excitable Colonel Blimp...
...important ally: Franklin Roosevelt. To George Norris this was the crowning disaster. With the President he had marched through one battle after another, to one victory after another, in the public-power fight. Almost in tears he prepared to break with the man who once called him "the shining symbol of integrity in public life...
...population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol of power, 'Hey, what are you going to do with me?' He made no suggestions. ... It was the essence of his case against society that it had left him unfit to offer suggestions...