Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...symbol of unity at New Delhi was remote, the communal hatred that had forced the partition now faced was real enough. On both sides of the new dividing line, between Pakistan and Hindu India, minority groups wondered what to do. A Moslem tonga (two-wheeled carriage) driver, who had lived 20 years in Delhi, thought of moving to the Punjab. "I will wait and see what happens," he said. "If there is any trouble, I will send for my mother, my sister and my two buffalo, on my farm in the United Provinces." But it would cost...
...Austere Symbol. Half the subjects of Mann's essays are figures who are known to most Americans (Goethe, Tolstoy, Wagner, Cervantes, Schopenhauer, Freud); the others are likely to interest only a specializing minority. But there is no basic difference in Essayist Mann's approach to any one of them-and it is this constancy that unites them in one volume like assorted vegetables in one string...
...says Mann, in one of his ecstatic outbursts, "is the most beautiful, austerest, blithest, most sacred symbol of all supra-reasonable human striving for ... truth and fullness" but it is also "only one humanistic discipline among others; all of them, philosophy, jurisprudence, medicine, theology, even the natural sciences and technology . . . are only variations ... of one and the same high and interesting theme...
...Symbol of his party's present mood is penguin-shaped Katayama. "Middle of the road" were the words with which General MacArthur approved him; "Do not overdo it" is Katayama's favorite motto. He carries an umbrella, calls himself a Fabian and has as little as possible to do with Kyuichi Tokuda's Communist Party. During Diet sessions, he can be seen, surrounded by Japanese newsmen, eating a lunch of rice and radish from a plain aluminum lunchbox. After the day's deliberations, he drives himself home in a stubby midget...
...Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...