Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight, myopic man known as O-Tenshi-Sami, Son of Heaven, is a religious symbol, explained OWI. As such, he is a potent puppet in the hands of the warlords-but some day he might be an equally useful puppet to the Allies...
...Change. The Algiers regime stood on its record, and on its plan for returning liberated France to constitutional democracy (TIME, Dec. 13). Admiral Jean François Darlan, the puppet and symbol of Allied expediency, was dead; General Henri Honoré Giraud, the later instrument of expediency, was in eclipse. Their alternative and countersymbol, General de Gaulle, was no longer the sole and dominant symbol of Fighting France. The Liberation Committee and its corollary advisory Consultative Assembly had to some extent overshadowed him. All responsible observers in Algiers, including some who had opposed De Gaulle, now recognized the fact that...
...even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over the place. There is an angry hound who, with a great ripping of one pants leg, yanks a man into...
...Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist soldier dragging a young woman over the contorted body of a baby; a man vomiting on a tangled mass of war corpses ("Is this what you were born...
...visored admiral's cap where his glittering crown should have been. The normal pageantry, usually a richly costumed charade suggesting Britain's history of kings and the common man's long fight for democratic self-government, was stripped to three essentials. The indispensables were: 1) the symbol of democracy; 2) the symbol of wealth; 3) the symbol of the King's safety...