Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many another opportunist who leaped aboard the Fascist band wagon, Juan March's nostrils apparently told him that the band wagon was turning into a one-hoss shay. Other Spaniards sniffed the same scent. Arriba, Falange newspaper in Madrid, termed Mussolini's fall "a symbol of a defeated people" and asked: "What power, what institution can today resist defeat...
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Coming at a time when a fourth-term drive was widely accepted as certain,* Wallace's speech was something more than a personal declaration. Spoken by the man who has become the symbol of unbending New Dealism in the shifting winds of Washington, it might also be taken as a message from Mr. Roosevelt to his disgruntled New Deal following: though he smites them hip & thigh, he still loves them. And loyal Henry Wallace, smitten hip & thigh himself, still loved his chastener. But as for his troubled followers, where could they go now, within the Democratic party...
...diminutive, testy, puppetlike Vittorio Emanuele was the symbol of a legality shrewdly wrapped around the fasces. The King could have broken up the March on Rome in 1922; instead, he gave power to Benito Mussolini and to an iron hand against liberalism. The King condoned the assault on Ethiopia with a calculating sentence: "If we win, I shall be King of Ethiopia. If we lose, I shall be King of Italy." Now the contract between his house and the house of fascismo had become dangerous; he had broken...
...guerrilla leader, Pablo, Hemingway's terrible symbol of a man devastated by the fear of death, Akim Tamiroff has some magnificent, all but tragic moments. As Pilar, Hemingway's salty symbol of Spain's people, Greek Actress Katina Paxinou would walk away with any less leaden show. Her hawk-fine face, wallowing walk, Goyaesque style and Noah Beery laugh assure her a rich future, if only she can find roles spacious enough. As the Soviet journalist, Karkov, Konstantin Shayne makes his characterization of a political commissar the most electrifying bit in years...