Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singly and in straggling little groups the faithful came to view the remains. Hinky Dink was dead, at 89. At Hursen's funeral Home on Chicago s South Michigan Avenue, under the glass cover of a $5,000 bronze casket, the Honorable Michael Kenna, symbol of the gaudiest era of Chicago's noisy and sinful past, was now a museum piece...
...dismay it spread among democratic forces in Europe and in Germany. They had just been tremendously heartened by Secretary Byrnes's address in Stuttgart. . . . Europe's democratic forces are behind Byrnes and not Wallace. The confusion in American liberalism, of which the Wallace speech is the symbol, must be regarded as catastrophic in the Ight of the European realities...
...postwar wines and promises of better food. The sacrosanct smoking room had a new carpet, its lackeys new black uniforms with green lapel pipings. A new room was open where M.P.s-who sometimes have had to dictate to secretaries on hall benches-could transact their business. Even the mace, symbol of authority, had been regilded...
...truce that would have javed the Red city. Communist negotiator Chou En-lai turned down the truce and let Kalgan go, though its loss drove a wedge between Communist Yenan and the Reds' Manchurian rampart. Kalgan's capture was the climax and the symbol of six months of campaigning in which the Government army had been more successful than impartial observers had expected. In addition to several Red cities (notably Chengteh ana Changchun) they had cleared many miles of economically vital North China railroads...
Nowhere in his work has this fusion been more fully realized than in "All The King's Men," It is a story told through the person of Jack Burden-- newspaper man, intellectual, and above all, cynic. A man of intelligence whose life has been largely wasted, symbol of the sterility and deracination of modern man who can find nothing on which to center his life and thereby lend it meaning. But although he tells it, the story is not Jack Burden's, it is Willie Stark's, the mock-heroic man of the people whose earnestness "to do good...