Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...
...Minister's no tions of heraldry. As Pearson himself was only too well aware, it reflected a deep and dangerous division between Canada's English-speaking majority and its French-speaking minority centered in the province of Quebec. To English Canadians, the Union Jack is a cherished symbol of Canada's strong allegiance to the mother country. But to French Canadians-with their own lan guage, Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity-the Union Jack is an ugly reminder of Quebec's forcible conquest by England in 1759, and what they regard as their own second...
...sporting monopolies are hardly sport at all. The Yankees, for all their skills, team" are with the now fans. New But York's there is "second one ancient monopoly that only grows more exciting with the years. That is the U.S. hold on the America's Cup - symbol of international supremacy in yachting. By the end of this summer, a doughty group of British yachtsmen will have spent close to $600,000 in an attempt to remove the ungainly, Victorian cup from its accustomed place of honor in the New York Yacht Club...
...Kennedy and the arts: "John F. Kennedy as Lous XV seemed up to the moment of his assassination the true symbol of our cultural plight; not only our first sexually viable president in a century, after a depressing series of uncle, grandfather and grandmother figures, but the very embodiment of middlebrow culture climbing...
...surprise, with fear, finally with scorn on the beacon that tells them Agamemnon will be returning from Troy. While the king is being welcomed home by his queen, the herald who had earlier trumpeted his own joy at returning to Argos watches his wife turn away from him, a symbol of what will happen to Agamemnon...