Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Facade, Old Faces. But when, at last, De Gaulle entered Paris in triumph in August 1944, he was the symbol of liberated France. Styling himself Provisional President, De Gaulle was unanimously confirmed in that office by the reconstituted National Assembly. Fortified by his conviction that "France, betrayed by her elite and her privileged groups, will never be the same as the prewar France," he set out to establish the strong executive that the Third Republic had so desperately lacked...
...finished his acceptance speech, they tumbled into the streets with the same joy they showed when Rojas toppled. Waving handkerchiefs, flags and pictures of Lleras, they wove in and out among horn-honking cars and buses.They stripped palm trees bare, carried the heavy fronds aloft in the ancient symbol of rejoicing. Students turned their coats inside out, joined hands and snake-danced to the chants of "Lleras! Lleras! Lleras...
...Jewish lives of which it was a memorial,* the gifts were somehow impressed with a trust that forbade any contamination of the premises that might compromise the claims of Protestant Christianity to a monopoly of ultimate truth." Wrote Psychology Professor Jerome Seymour Bruner: "The Memorial Church now becomes a symbol of disunity . . . There has been exclusion. I cannot avoid the feeling that matters of sectarian religious doctrine have been put ahead of concern for the Harvard community." A delegation of top faculty members paid a visit to President Pusey to object to the policy...
...account for that clamant coupling of pre-ministerial students which threatens now to turn our dormitories into nurseries, our campuses into playpens, our graduate colleges into preschools? Ordinarily we would plead for no ivory tower, but if the choice is ivory tower or brooder coop, the remoter symbol looks better all the time...
...step from the wet cobblestones of the town that Joe dares not name to the even more bleak landscape of ambition. Ned is a cool, shrewd Organization Man, and Robert a hotheaded art-rebel type; as they grow up, Joe keeps score in their unending game of oneupmanship. One symbol of success that each plays off on the other is Myra Chetwynd, the dizzy-making model whom Robert and Ned take successively to the altar...