Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that America can no longer afford to retain cultural contacts with them. The principle of keeping children in their own yards may apply in family discipline, but it has utterly no value, coercive or moral, in international relations. The Russians have behaved in an unpardonable manner, but the empty symbol of American moral indignation is not valuable enough to risk the danger of cultural isolationism...
...under his dinner plate, tucked into his car, pressed into his hand on the street. "Sometimes," he wrote last week, "they want you to get word to relatives in America. Or perhaps it's just a message to everybody in the U.S." To Jones they have become a symbol of his own "continuous feeling of inadequacy, both as an American and a reporter who helplessly watched the murder of an entire people...
Mike Williams-Thompson, a longtime government information officer, argued in a recent book that royal public relations should be taken away from courtiers ("men with built-in sneers"), entrusted to expert publicists. If press-palace relations continue to deteriorate, he warned, the crown cannot long "survive as a symbol of permanence in an all too swiftly changing world...
...Alps, The Mountain tells the story of an adventure that leads its adventurers to the high places of the spiritual as well as of the physical world. The adventure is intended to represent the struggle between Good and Evil, as that struggle is lived out against a symbol that expresses both the way and the goal of life: The Mountain. All too often, though, the makers of this movie give evidence that they are hardly the men to match The Mountain...
...refuses. "You want to go up The Mountain, within the sight of God, so that you can pick the pockets of dead people?" Nevertheless, when little brother threatens to go alone, big brother decides to do for love what he would not do for money. In the language of symbol: Good would never have got going if it had not been for Evil...