Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long before Canada's Prime Minister found a symbol of the nation's undeveloped wealth and might in the frozen north, mineral hunters and military men sought ways to pry open the Arctic kingdom's icebound riches. Last week from Ottawa came signs that the golden key has at last been found. It is nuclear power...
Next day on the Lido Brigitte turned out to roll on the beach at the photographers' commands-until the photographers began to scrap among themselves for vantage points. Unperturbed, Brigittt insisted that she was very happy to be a "universal sex symbol." She also ventured an opinion on Charles de Gaulle: "He s a bigger man than I am in every...
...other centuries the cathedral was a proper symbol. "It was needed to dominate, even in the physical sense, by the employment of the mass and bulk and the arrogance of towers commanding the landscape-less to spy out the political enemy than to cow the underlings. The lacy frivolity of St. Patrick's cows nobody on [Manhattan's] Fifth Avenue today, and the view of it from atop Rockefeller Center suggests nothing so much as an outsized Victorian toy anchored in the heart of modern commerce...
...cathedral symbol is dead and should be buried. The sooner we get it out of the system the better it will be for the ultimate development of living art and architecture in the service of religion...
Beyond Time. As Seamarks opens with majestic waves of imagery, the poet celebrates the sea as the ever-renewing source and symbol of life. In endless variations on this theme, Perse evokes man's grandest and loneliest moments, his immemorial past, his intimations of a nobler future. With its Invocation. Strophe, Chorus and Dedication-and its sensuous neopagan salute to raw nature-Seamarks reads a little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation...