Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...popular participation in civic affairs. Presumably they have also egged on at least some of the public uprisings. In Oaxaca last week the crowd uncovered when orators spoke the name of Pornrio Diaz, president-dictator (with a four-year break) from 1877 to 1911, and to many Mexicans a symbol of reaction and exploitation...
...involves an ex-Harvard professor named Lewis Teigne who disappears mysteriously from his house near Shanghai. Perhaps he has gone over to the Japanese invaders. Perhaps he is trying to convince quarreling China that Chiang Kai-shek is indeed "the Polar Star that stays in its place," a national symbol...
...laurel crown has long been recognized as the traditional symbol of immortality-therefore, by this token, and by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Council of Regents ... I do herewith pronounce Carrie Jacobs-Bond an immortal of the Memorial Court of Honor." He placed the crown on the bier...
...Paepcke is not overly concerned about figures. He believes that Americans are too extreme both at work and at play. At Aspen he would like to create a symbol of balance. To do so he plans to promote industries in Aspen that will make woodwork out of native aspen, jewelry out of native silver, clothes out of mountain sheep's wool, cheese from the milk of local cattle. It will be no accident, however, if Paepcke, whose Container Corp. does some $75,000,000 worth of business a year, also turns Aspen into a tidy profit...
...Coney Island peopled mostly by tycoons, cinema cutups and political crackpots. He married an American (Margaret Adele MacKnight of New York City). Mrs. Cruikshank is an editor of London's Economist, writes on U.S. affairs. He turned his favorite subject into a novel, The Double Quest, using the symbol of a Briton's love for an American girl as the theme for Anglo-U.S. amity. Later, as wartime head of the Ministry of Information's American Division, he suggested the same idea to cinema scripters, saw it come to light as the movie Stairway to Heaven...