Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good book has ever been written that has in it symbols arrived at beforehand and stuck in," says Hemingway. "That kind of symbol sticks out like raisins in raisin bread. Raisin bread is all right, but plain bread is better." He opens two bottles of beer and continues: "I tried to make a real old man, a real boy, a real sea and a real fish and real sharks...
Writing in his accustomed idiom of the lower East Side, Odets has made Noah (played by Menasha Skulnik) a symbol of fatalistic determinism while his son, Japheth (played by Mario Alcalde), represents the viewpoint that God wants men to work out their own fate. This clash (played by a rudder for the Ark, which Japheth insists upon and which Noah calls a sinful negation of God's Will) is not a startling new theme, but is well dramatized and well acted...
...complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries as a symbol of the envy that made him a thief. The lightly sketched figure is lead-heavy with hatred, and seems sagging into serpentnature...
...Italian state oil and gas authority, is a slim, eagle-beaked man of 48 named Enrico Mattei. To some Italians he is the greatest man in all Italy. To others, and particularly to U.S. businessmen trying to do business in Italy, Enrico Mattei is the biggest and clearest symbol of what is wrong with Italy's economy. Last week, in the Italian press, both sides were shouting bitter arguments at each other...
...proposal for aid to China includes a vigorous drive to "bring an outpouring of letters to the President." Butcher said that a letter campaign "would probably have small sacks filled with rice" added as a symbol of the plan...