Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tartar wives, a soldier, a horse dealer, a civil servant, an actor and a novice in a monastery-always resigned to his fate, yet full of curiosity and humor, always interested in the experience of being a Russian in gigantic and diverse Mother Russia. The Wanderer is a credible symbol of his people and his century, and his story reminds the reader once again of the parallels between Russia and America : the sense of large possibility deriving from large size, the feeling of the frontier (being captured by Tartars was much like being captured by Indians), and the headlong, belated...
...Milan who has emptied his life filling prescriptions. His approaching death from leukemia is the biggest thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives. He drinks bourbon and talks Bourbon: "Imagine a future where delicate little white girls must share their desks with coal...
Last week Williams wound up a 30,000-mile swing through 13 African countries. In Nyasaland. he officially received the title of honorary white chief; in the Ivory Coast he picked up a carved canne de jugement, symbol of tribal justice. At Northern Rhodesia's Lusaka airport, Williams was going through the farewell ceremonies with Governor Sir Evelyn Hone, when a burly white man lumbered out of the shadows of the airport administration building. Lunging at Williams, he seized a lapel, spun him around, and let fly with a punch. The blow glanced off Soapy...
...Stearn-who borrowed his explanations from a 17th century French scholar-the ancient Greeks gave human qualities to the planets. Mars, the red planet, was considered male, and the Greek word for Mars, Thouros, was abbreviated to "Th," or α. In the hands of careless and hasty penmen, this symbol eventually degenerated into δ. The same shorthand fate overtook the female planet, Venus, whose Greek name Phosphorus was reduced to Ph (Φ) and subsequently-perhaps by the same careless Grecians-to ø. When medieval alchemists came upon these symbols, they found them useful: δ (Mars) was associated with hard iron...
...wonder is that this ordinarily mild-mannered, suburbia-chained father, who even admits that his swimming pool is "my status symbol," is able to punch so hard. Borne to fame in World War II on the shoulders of his famed G.I. cartoon characters, Willie and Joe, Mauldin seemed dashed and aimless once the smoke of war had cleared away. "My life has been backwards," he says. "Big success, retirement, and now I'm making an honest living." Starting a brand-new career three years ago at the Post-Dispatch, he has risen to the top of his profession, using...