Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worship Father Divine because he is the second incarnation of God. . . . We are all white but we think there should be no difference between human races. .. . It is just a symbol to mankind that God chose the body of a Negro when He came to earth this time. It is another symbol that the black Mrs. Divine vanished and rose again, but as a young white girl...
...Saint & Symbol. Joan of Arc, France's patron saint-who was persuaded by her inquisitors to deny her visionary powers-has long served Bernanos as a symbol of Republican France. Joy's heroine, Chantal de Clergerie, is a much-modified Joan, facing present-day inquisitors in modern dress...
Bernanos is trying to explore states of mind too private to be communicable. Few novelists could give flesh and blood to such a clutter of spiritual skeletons as inhabit the De Clergerie chateau; even fewer could use a teen-age girl as the symbol for an exalted faith without making her too good to be true. Joy is fair evidence of why Novelist Bernanos has never influenced many and yet has vigorously influenced...
...gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave or tactful as Maxim's famed, monocled Chasseur Gérard, who, with a handy grasp...
...spending too much time on their knees, repenting, and not enough on their feet, going somewhere. Communism will be defeated by liberalism . . . but not until Americans understand that their own Revolution was much more fundamental than the Russian Revolution, and that Lincoln and not Lenin is the predestinate symbol of the common...