Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime secrecy, the Most Reverend and Right Honorable Cyril Forster Garbett, Archbishop of York, Primate of England and Metropolitan, slipped across the Atlantic Ocean into the U.S. (it was his first visit), there was no Protestant churchman who could have impressed Americans more. For the Archbishop was a symbol of one great Protestant church which, under the impact of war, had suffered a passion and predicated a resurrection...
This grafting of the present on the past is most aptly symbolized by the life & times of one of New England's first citizens, Leverett Saltonstall. By face, family and fortune, he is a symbol of New England's yesterday. As three-time governor of New England's largest state, he is a prime symbol of New England's today...
...Churches found the design "sacrilegious ... an utter mockery of the sacredness of worship. . . . Weapons of war might as well be placed on the altar or pulpit as to allow this horrible creation ... to desecrate the sanctuary of worship." The influential Christian Century found it "rather shocking to see that symbol of gentleness and grace" holding a warship, but was thankful that "the figure of Christ does not hold the pivotal position. . . . If He were represented . . . the incongruity would be too painful...
...British Government were as intelligent as George Bernard Shaw, it would junk the English alphabet, adopt a new one of 42 letters so that each sound would have its own symbol. So wrote Shaw to the London Times last week. For years he has used Pitman shorthand to save time in writing. Said Shaw: "The fact that Russia, with its 35-letter alphabet, can spell my name with two letters [Wo ] instead of four may conceivably make it impossible for us to compete economically in the world with Russia...
...would recognize the Confederacy, units of the Russian Navy put in at New York and San Francisco. The Russians had really scattered their fleet to have it free for raiding should war come with France and England over the Polish question. But the North took the visit as a symbol of U.S.-Russian solidarity...