Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best traditions of the gentlemen and scholar. Though he has not had a foot in a stirrup in twenty years, he speaks reminiscently of his experiences on the range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew's "claudication," he mournfully recalls, prevented it from getting in any of the pictures...
...Negroes. Political bosses and ward heelers depend on him to deliver the vote; court officials and police get a healthy cut of the weekly $7,500 in syndicate protection money; the 337,000 citizens of Chicago's teeming Negro belt consider him a hero and a symbol. All of them insist that he remain free and happy...
Nevertheless, the fair was a symbol of reviving economic life in the Russian zone which had outstripped the zones held by the democratic powers...
Typical convert-winning thesis: "We are living in an era of revolution. . . . Basically there are only two revolutions possible. Either we reform institutions, or we reform man. . . . Each revolution has its symbol. The symbol of one . . . the clenched fist. The clenched fist that stands for hatred, and for violence and for destruction. . . . And the other ... the symbol of the folded hands. They cannot strike, for they were not made for offense; they cannot protect, for they were not made for defense; they can only supplicate, only pray . . . ten Gothic spires aspiring heavenward for the souls...
What Kapitza was doing last week was a pitch-black secret. No doubt the Soviet Institute of Physical Problems, which he heads, was frantically busy with bomb research. But the U.S.S.R. has other excellent physicists. To its Government, Kapitza was most valuable as a symbol of national security. To U.S. academicians, Peter Kapitza also stood as a symbol-a living symbol of science's lost internationalism...