Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least three police families from breaking up, and prompted a dozen police officers to join churches. In municipal court Hager sits next to Judge James McWhorter every morning so that he can prepare for follow-up work with defendants. Among the winos of Summers Street he is a symbol of hope and help, has managed to rehabilitate a dozen drunks...
...because the two faiths are "sufficiently alike for the Jew to find God more easily in terms of his own religious heritage than by subjecting himself to the hazards of guilt feeling involved in a conversion to a faith, which, whatever its excellencies, must appear to him as a symbol of an oppressive majority culture. Both Jews and Christians will have to accept the hazards of their historic symbols. These symbols may be the bearers of an unconditioned message to the faithful. But to those outside the faith they are defaced by historic taints. Practically nothing can purify the symbol...
...just as well." demanded Dr. Kean, "if along with the countdown routine, a man had been assigned at each stage in the process to cross his fingers and say 'Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol or a word is associated with traditional Christianity does not prevent its being used in the most blatantly superstitious manner possible. The fact that there are religious and moral ideals in our Western heritage does not prevent these symbols from being caricatured, so that not only is the symbol itself...
...Monocle shows Huxley using the old symbol of aristocracy to gouge the good eye out of his victim, a sensitive type named Gregory. Gregory is as phony as a man who would wear a monocle over a glass eye. He mismanipulates the monocle as a social rather than an optical device in a series of appalling drawing-room misadventures-until it falls to the floor of a London cab. and with it falls its owner...
...sentiment on the part of a large number of faculty members has developed against the President's policy, although the opposition is far from unanimous. The feeling of a portion of this group is that expressed in Bruner's letter, namely, that the Church has been destroyed as a symbol of academic unity, as a place "where the diversity of religious impulse can be communally expressed...