Word: symbolization
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...probably on wings of allegory. British Novelist Angus Wilson, who has until now been content to annotate skillfully the thesis that people are unbelievably nasty (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes), sets the time of his new novel halfway between now and 1984, and the place is the London Zoo. Only a Symbol Simon could fail to read a message here...
...many Detroiters would agree that the city cannot be saved by a mayor alone. Its problems run so deep that they can be solved only by the effort of labor, management, -'government and citizenry-working in a spirit that once made Detroit the symbol of economic dynamism. Says Henry Ford II: "Detroit admittedly has its problems-intelligent citizen interest and action can solve them. As I see it, the vital need now is for the people themselves to become interested in the community and government, and to take an active part in their affairs...
...there were revelations about Communism's recent past that rivaled the purge trials of the 1930's. Instead of parrotlike unity, there was the thrust of conflict between Red China and the Soviet Union. With typical Communist indirection, Moscow and Peking used tiny, insignificant Albania as the symbol of the quarrel and as their ideological whipping...
...fundamental distinguishing belief of Baptists is that baptism should be administered only to believers as a sign and symbol of their conversion-not as a means of grace, or cleansing from sin, or a setting apart, as with other forms of Christianity. The corollary to the Baptist tenet is that infants are too young to believe and therefore must not be baptized. Yet in an interview in the biweekly Lutheran Standard, official publication of the 2,300,000-member American Lutheran Church. Graham was quoted as saying: "I still have some personal problems in this matter of infant baptism...
Boroff's main devices in illuminating the characters of the institutions he visits are the Meaningful Remark and the Significant Event. Always, when Boroff is trying to prove to a point, up pops "a pretty girl," "a usual observation," or "a symbol" to support him. This is not to say he is dishonest; but there is a great danger in treating an isolated remark or incident as typical of an entire institution...