Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sophisticated evil of the Duke with the organic writhings of a monster. Ruth Emerson, as his niece, the Princess Saralinda, contrasted warmth and serenity with the Duke's icy fingers nicely when she first came on. But she did not bend as Thurber expanded her into the floating symbol of molested maidens...
...rocking chair, long a symbol of comfort and repose in every habitant farmhouse, was transformed into a device of frenzy and fatigue in Quebec last week. A wave of rocking-chair contests called bercethons (from the French bercer-to rock) swept the province. Quebec was suffering a virulent recurrence of the marathon mania of the '305, with rockerthons, pianothbns, poolothons and countless other forms of zany endurance tests under way in almost every village and town...
...Horizons. On each of its reels of magnetic tape, the brain can remember enough information to fill a 1,836-page Manhattan telephone book-any figure, word, chemical or mathematical symbol-and work the information at the rate of 7,200 unerringly logical operations per second. In its vast computing units (2,500 electronic tubes, three miles of wire) it can multiply a pair of 127-digit numbers and arrive at a 254-digit answer in one-third of a second. In a second it can add 4,000 five-digit figures or do 160 equally complicated long divisions...
Sundaram characterized the Formosan government as "an erstwhile symbol of a power that has run away to Formosa." "Chiang Kalshek he said "is not the Abraham Lincoln of China...
Cinematically, Blackboard Jungle is no great shakes. The camera work is commonplace and the emotional pace limps. The actors do better. Glenn Ford is a believable symbol of two-fisted do-goodism; Louis Calhern captures that special look of secret decay that can come from breathing chalk dust for 30 years. Better still are the students themselves, some of whom were borrowed from their desks in the Los Angeles public school system. The sense of them there in the background has obviously provided a true emotional standard to which the professional actors, notably Sidney Poitier and Vic Morrow, could repair...