Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder attempt, it was organized by the fanatically anti-Sukarno Darul Islam sect, which promised that Bung would need all the good luck his magicians could bring him to avoid assassination in the future. Said one Darul Islam spokesman: "He is a stumbling block to progress, a symbol of failure...
...mocked by impending death. Love is the rose stifling in the blind house of modern technology. Note the repeated theme of blindness, and the plane that will bring annihilation to the world. Like the world, human love has no future. And little religious comfort. (The fish was an early symbol of Christian faith, now reduced-hence "few fishes.") Mirth, too, has shrunk to "narrow laughs," though the poet, like Western man himself, fondly recalls the lost gentleness of childhood ("to crawl was tender...
...city streets, motor scooters, yesterday's symbol of prosperity, have almost vanished, replaced by masses of automobiles-although to own a car, many Italians must still make sacrifices. Says one Milanese waiter, explaining why he is single: "O macchina, o moglie" (Either a car or a wife...
...Tolstoyan. The Italian constitution regards the President as the living symbol of the nation, and for Italy's paradoxical mood of economic prosperity and intellectual concern, the election of Segni was remarkably appropriate. A wealthy gentleman farmer from Sardinia,* Segni has given away 250 acres of his own rich olive groves to landless peasants; in 1950, as Agriculture Minister, he sponsored a far-reaching system of national land reform. Politically, Segni is a moderate conservative who is not likely to stand in the way of reforms planned under Fanfani's opening to the left...
...mayor, Tsutomu Tagawa, whose home was destroyed by the Bomb, says his people feel "no bitterness" toward the U.S., shrugs: "If Japan had had the same type of weapon, it would have used it." Today the main difference between the two cities is that Hiroshima has remained a stark symbol of man's inhumanity to man; Nagasaki is a monument to forgiveness...