Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant no smirch. Authorities who supported TIME'S position include Longstreet's own biographers, Eckenrode & Conrad, Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, the Dictionary of American Biography. Whether the criticism of Longstreet is just or not, Longstreet at Gettysburg has been for years a classic U.S. symbol of the costliness of delay...
...Communist Party of New York city adopted a new campaign symbol: instead of the famed, crescent-shaped hammer & sickle of the Red banner, a sledge hammer and pitchfork in the shape...
...Wound and the Bow takes its title from the legend of Philoctetes, who was first abandoned by the Greeks during the Trojan war because of a noisome, incurable wound, then sought out by them because of his magically invincible bow-symbol of the man of genius as pariah-savior and of the Gordian interdependence of power and neurosis. The two most important pieces in The Wound and the Bow are studies of that symbol in terms of1) Dickens, 2) Kipling...
...Tatuta Maru was a symbol of the recoil the U.S. would have to brace itself for if President Roosevelt chose to fire his new economic weapon. The U.S. last season got only 18% of its silk from China and other minor sources, all the rest (273,711 bales) from Japan. Loss of this supply would mean i) an epidemic of bare or lisle-clad shanks, 2) abrupt dislocation of the U.S. hosiery industry (97,000 workers), 3) lesser repercussions on many another U.S. clothing manufacturer...
Rainer Maria Rilke could serve as a symbol of the best and worst meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...