Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LITTERARY symbols are made not only by authors. but by readers-whenever they feel the need to sum up a phase of their own lives and times. Readers seized on Goethe's Werther and Byron's Childe Harold as handy symbols of romanticism, on Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Ibsen's Nora to stand for the restless "modern" woman, on Hemingway's Lady Brett to personify the Lost Generation, on Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt to embody a generation that resolutely refused to get lost. Now a new literary symbol has emerged, a character...
...rebellion was now at an end, but a British district officer, passing through Nandi territory recently, noted that the tribesmen were still making arrows. The witch doctor was arrested. As he was hauled to jail, mooning all the while over a withered setiot blossom (the symbol of virility among the Nandi), the remaining Nandi meekly and with some relief surrendered their stock of nearly 15,000 newly made bows and arrows. "We had to do as the witch doctor said," one explained apologetically, "otherwise he would have bewitched our children...
Japan, which leads all Asian nations in imitating the West, has lately acquired both a lost generation and a flaming youth. Currently, the symbol of both is a girl with waist-length black hair, cat's eyes and a fox smile who could be seen last week on the stage of Osaka's Kitano Theater. As she closed her eyes, and with hips swaying began to sing (in alternating English and Japanese verses) an excruciatingly off-key version of Banana Boat Song, her quivering fans rose from their seats and screamed with delight. At 18 Michiko Hamamura...
Picasso's attachment to the Communist Party has been subject to fits and starts. He let the party make his Peace Dove (actually a lithograph of a white fantail pigeon Henri Matisse had given him as a present) a propaganda symbol the world over, and Communist Boss Maurice Thorez is a frequent and conspicuous guest at Picasso's villa at Cannes. But when someone asked Picasso what he would do if France became a satellite and he was ordered to paint the party line, Picasso exploded: "If they stopped my painting, I would draw on paper. If they...
...cardinal's words had extra political weight because under Russian persecution, even more than under foreign partition, the church was a symbol of freedom. The story is told of a man in church during the bitter pre-Gomulka days who remained standing during Mass. His neighbors tugged at his sleeve, but he stubbornly refused to kneel. "I'm an atheist," he explained. "Then why do you come to Mass?" they asked. "Because," he said, "I'm against the government...