Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Incoming students heard President Conant at Sanders Theatre Friday night in the first such address in several years. Paying tribute to the 20,000 Harvard men in uniform during the war, he said, "This is the day we've been waiting for, . . . tonight's meeting is a symbol not only of the return of Harvard to normal peace time functions, but one of great gratification and pride in the Harvard men who fought...
...wrote Thoreau from the fir-scented tranquillity of Walden Pond, "lead lives of quiet desperation." In periods of accelerated history, the organic rot of Rome, the collapse of the Middle Ages, the gigantic life & death struggles of 20th-century civilization, this desperation takes on a new intensity. Its symbol in our time is the emigre, the political fugitive...
...back at civilian jobs; that only 2,000,000 are unemployed; that reconversion is 90% complete in many parts of the country; that payrolls and individual earnings are only slightly below the wartime peak (see BUSINESS). The nation was stuffed with yeasty potential. Vogue welcomed nylons back as "a symbol [of] the pleasures of peace, distilled into one wishful word...
...modern eye, St. Simeon Stylites is likely to seem a kind of 5th-Century Shipwreck Kelly*-a symbol of ascetic reductio ad absurdum. To that view, his 38-year residence atop a pillar was only a Syrian sideshow that attracted the curious. The vulgar error of a vulgar age, says Father Augustin C. Wand, S.J., in the current American Ecclesiastical Review. "Simeon the Stylite is not a character about whom we Catholics need to be apologetic...
...himself, he surmised, is the "only phonetician, economist and man of letters who realizes how much money there is in a British alphabet with which every sound in our speech can be written with one graphic symbol." Shaw appealed to the British Government "as a labor government" to do something about...