Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John M. Bullitt '43, master of Quincy, called the new name a "splendid choice." He praised Quincy, calling him a symbol of "concern for academic freedom and for scholastic excellence...
Just 119 days after the Russians sent Sputnik I into the skies, tearing a wound in U.S. pride and prestige, the Army's Explorer thundered off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, a symbol of a new kind of U.S. strength. "The U.S.," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "has successfully placed a scientific earth satellite around the earth...
...Samson at his job, the other a Don Juan with the women. For 16 summers, during the long layoff period, they have come to Melbourne for a home-style spree with two barmaids. Each year one of them has given his girl a Kewpie doll, by now a symbol of gaily recurrent romance and absentee devotion. This 17th summer, with the other girl married and a new one (Madge Ryan) in her place, with relations between the two men rather strained, and with various flare-ups and intrusions, all the fun fizzles out; the show goes bust. In truth...
...outward calm during such incidents always puzzled Stanislaus, though he later realized one of its causes: their mother had become a symbol to the great symbol-maker of "the Irishwoman, the accomplice of the Irish Catholic Church, which [James] called the scullery-maid of Christendom." Stanislaus laces his book with anticlerical gibes; the brothers' joint rejection of the Catholic faith culminated in a scene at their dying mother's bedside in which Jim and Stanislaus refused to kneel and pray for her-an episode that Joyce later used in Ulysses as the source of Stephen Dedalus' "agenbite...
Another professor agreed substantially with the interpretation of man's inability to achieve perfection. "Yes, indeed, that's quite possible," he exclaimed. "The fact that the chap carried a flashlight would be a sort of Diogenes symbol for man's eternal attempt to find a truth which can never be attained," he added...