Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retreat. Whatever his formulas, Jimmy Byrnes was sticking to one objective: peace treaties must be made with the former Axis satellites this summer. But first the Trieste issue had to be settled. The Italian port on the Adriatic was a symbol of the struggle between Western democracy and Soviet imperialism. If Tito succeeded in taking Trieste from the Western-backed Italian republic, Russia's prestige would rise mightily...
...basic plot is that old movie standby, the love triangle. In this case, the romancing does double duty as political allegory. In piling up her case against a wishy-washy U.S. foreign policy, Playwright Hellman has converted each of her characters into a sort of symbol...
...Polish Silesia. A lone light in Germany's end-of-the-century literary darkness, he passed from his era's realism and social protest (The Weavers) to a new era's symbolistic fantasy (The Sunken Bell); in his old age was seized upon as a symbol of German culture by both the Nazis and their Soviet conquerors...
...Shack was Pastor Smith's home and headquarters. It was also the symbol of his special kind of ministry. Its 24 rooms included an auditorium and a kitchen for community parties. Smith added a steeple and belfry to make it a church as well...
...Thames Embankment, midway between the Houses of Parliament and the Tower, stands a massive granite pile, boldly convex. Its 16 grey Ionic columns give an impression of opulent security worthy of a king's exchequer. This is Unilever House. In front stands a statue of Queen Victoria, symbol of Empire. The juxtaposition is apt. For Unilever House is an empire within the Empire, the greatest industrial realm in the British world...