Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another. He began to re-examine the country he had forsaken. His America: A Reappraisal, which critics found more penitent than profound, was followed by a new symposium America Now, more thoughtful and more hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination of them-was part of the social pattern of his time...
...reactions. Eugenie became a Napoleon-cultist, a frenzied romantic. After the death of her father, Eugenie and her mother wintered in Paris, where the new emperor, Louis Napoleon, fell passionately in love with her. But her marriage (in 1853) was no love match; she was infatuated by a symbol, and managed to trap...
...Symbol of a Symbol. To devout Catholics, the Catholic Church is more than an institution: it is a symbol of eternity. And the Pope, from the moment of his papal elevation, is more than a man: he is a symbol of the symbol of eternity. As symbol, Pius...
...symbol Pius XII is a spiritual autocrat of incalculable power...
...despite the massiveness of the symbol, the Pope is also supremely important as a man. For as Pope (when he speaks ex cathedra), he is infallible. But as a man, he is fallible like any other. And this fallibility determines his place among the "good" Popes or the "bad" Popes, and hence his influence upon history...