Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star-Spangled Banner is not, and has never had any pretensions of being a martial song. ... It expresses, rather, the deep and reverent feeling inspired in the hearts of a peaceful people when they are confronted with the symbol of the ideals which lie at the basis of their national life...
Facing Park Avenue, one block south of Grand Central Station, stands a venerable symbol of the Mauve Decade in Manhattan-the eight-story, red-brick Murray Hill Hotel, festooned with magnificent circular fire escapes, studded with four towers whence New Yorkers once could view their city. Like an aging dowager, the Murray Hill resisted change through the years. New Yorkers called it "The Old Lady," occasionally walked through its palm-dotted lobby or ate in its red-walled dining room, with splashing fountain and singing canaries, to evoke the feeling of a bygone era. Among surrounding skyscrapers, the Murray Hill...
Most Frenchmen were still imprisoned and frustrated within la patrie, but they were united in hatred of the Hun and of collaboration. London reports claimed that 80% of the French people now recognized General Charles de Gaulle as their symbol of resistance. They also recognized that the German drain on their working (and fighting) manpower can be slowed only by French resistance, halted only by a second front. Pending the day of invasion, Frenchmen remembered...
Dispatches from India last week scarcely mentioned the Marquess of Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, personal friend and unrelenting political enemy of Mohandas K. Gandhi. But it was Lord Linlithgow, tall, stern symbol of British policy, unbending in his scarlet-carpeted marble palace, who had stood his ground and defeated Mohandas Gandhi, frail symbol of India's ceaseless struggle for her independence...
Inside India. News that Gandhi had ended his fast was received with prayers of thanksgiving by millions of his followers and sympathizers. Illiterate, mystical, depressed, the Indian masses rejoiced that Gandhi's life, which is their symbol of hope and liberation, had been spared. But Indian political leaders did not attempt to gloss over the adverse effects of the fast. They were frankly worried...