Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silhouette of Widener's pillars, long a nostalgic symbol of Harvard's academic prowess, will be an unfamiliar sight to much of the University's student body, service and civilian, who have never known anything but a lightless Harvard...
...Filipinos who fought the Jap through Bataan and on Corregidor, and who now suffer the full measure of Jap co-prosperity, Manuel Quezon is an undying symbol of Philippine independence. Both Manuel Quezon and goodman Osmeña were mum last week. In the end, the ticklish question of the Presidential tenure will almost certainly be settled by the White House...
Martin Van Buren sits in repose, a white tie and high collar at his throat, his white hair like a halo around his balding old head, white sideburns creeping down his pink cheeks. Grover Cleveland leans back in majestic bulk, the imperious, mustachioed symbol of the era of bankers and builders. Teddy Roosevelt stares through his pince-nez with impatient energy, head belligerently forward, right hand resting on table, left fist clenched at the hip. And Franklin Roosevelt relaxes, hands on chair arms, in a pose so familiar that not even the bad, sharp lines of the Albany portrait...
Tutt v. the Law. But Ephraim Tutt's autobiography is not only entertainment. Tutt belongs with Uncle Sam, David Harum and Paul Bunyan as a symbol of what Americans think of themselves, how they would like to be. Tutt's autobiography takes the serious reader to the border of one of literature's most fascinating phenomena : the myth, and its meaning in the ethos of a nation...
Great Day. A black pennant, the designated symbol of surrender, flew from the highest mast of each ship when the Italia, Vittorio Veneto, five of the cruisers and four of the destroyers passed the British destroyer Hambledon off Malta. Aboard the Hambledon were two interested observers: General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham, naval victor of the Mediterranean. A.P. Correspondent Clark Lee, who was also aboard the Hambledon, got the impression that Admiral Cunningham would have admired the Italians more if they had been at battle stations, fighting it out. But, said the Admiral...