Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rainmaker (Hal Wollis; Paramount). Most modern audiences seem to enjoy a good sermon-as long as it preaches what they practice. They are also increasingly symbol-minded-provided the symbols do not excite the mental so much as the sentimental faculties ("It isn't enough that boy meets girl," one playwright complained. "Now they want to know what he metaphor"). They also have a kindly feeling of superiority for an old maid-if she isn't too old. And everybody loves a cowboy picture...
...dazed state, the defense mechanism of the human body worked, and even smiling at them, I answered: 'It means a cardinal without office.' " It took his captors some time to find out that C.F. stood for the Latin coactus feci ("I have been forced to act") -a symbol used by many Christians to sign extorted confessions during the years of Turkish rule in Hungary...
...Melbourne's largest funeral parlor took down its "Welcome to Olympic Visitors" sign, and airline flights were so solidly booked that one desperate spectator tried to get shipped home as freight. In the Olympic stadium, the gas was turned off and the Olympic flame, symbol of sporting competition, flickered out for another four years...
...speaker admitted that modern religion is frequently a faith of symbols, and doubted that a symbol would heal a man's wounds. "If God is a symbol," he continued, then religion is child's play...
...seemed to emerge from a hazy, indiscriminate obscurity when the eulogists started talking about them. And so Fred Allen's death brought remorse to "Stop the Music" and the commercial sensationalism which he had fought all his life. It also brought new life to Fred Allen as a symbol of a dying...