Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bigger and plushier quarters, which a Munich hotel is providing free. With the club will go one present fixture: an enlarged Watteau etching, from which an 18th century siren peeks suggestively out at the bar as she heads for the shrubbery with her lover. Muses Weigt: "She is the symbol of the club. You see how her wink follows you all around the room? She already has everything-yet she still wants something more...
Outraged and embarrassed by the bombs, Osagyefo (the Redeemer) threw a number of his opponents into jail. Work crews feverishly tried to repair Nkrumah's bomb-blasted bronze statue in front of Parliament House. Supporters symbolically bandaged the statue's shattered feet, covered it with white powder, and threw a calico scarf over its right shoulder-Ghana's traditional symbol of victory. Others slaughtered a goat at the base of the statue to cleanse it of evil spirits...
...series of depictions of Our Lady of Montserrat, Catalonia's patron saint. The original Montserrat is a small wooden figure of the Virgin that legend says was carved by St. Luke. It now stands in mountaintop Montserrat monastery near Barcelona. For Gonzalez, the Montserrat was the symbol of the Spanish peasant, and he wrought the first of his series during the Spanish Civil War-a woman erect and proud, child in one arm, weapon in the other. The series ends in 1942 with his last and unfinished study; charged with protest against war and against Franco, Gonzalez shows...
...State Department employees in his first year at Foggy Bottom, ultimately became so much of a storm center that Dwight Eisenhower sent him off to Dublin after a bitter Senate confirmation debate in which McLeod was denounced by Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator Joseph Clark as a "symbol of the witch hunter" of the McCarthy era; of a heart attack; in Concord...
...tight European federation, niether protest is really valid, but there is a strange legitimacy to more moderate British desires. Mr. Macmillan wants, ideally, a loose federation with both Europe and the Commonwealth, for he understandably cannot bear to let the Commonwealth go. It is more than a symbol of past grandeur, it may become a cultural tie between East and West, and Britain more than ever fancies its role as international mediator...