Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doubting Thomas is one of those tightly plotted but tenuously conceived books that can go fatally wrong anywhere after the first page. This one stays right all the way, and ends as one of the most satisfying novels of the year. For Thomas is both a symbol of common humanity and an intensely human individual. Ten years before, Agent Thomas first dressed as a clown for the masquerade that was part of the Holiday. For the first time in years he had fun and added to the fun of others. Thus he discovered the real Thomas, the human being obscured...
...Orwell's 1984 or Kafka's The Castle-is in happy accord with the love of man which shines through Brebner's artfully simple writing. To a world in which too many already know the brutal impersonality of authoritarianism, Brebner offers his irreverent clown as the symbol of both man's frailty and dignity...
...Hooray for your Oct. 15 report on Herman Talmadge. It's about time he was given worldwide recognition, for I'm sure he is the most outstanding symbol of bigoted white supremacy to be found anywhere...
...that Russia's influence there is at a peak, that "the rising fires of Arab nationalism" are a threat to world peace. And he won applause when he said that "Israel is not a cause to be cynically remembered by the Administration in late October" but is a "symbol of man's triumph over ... the attempt of Adolf Hitler to destroy a whole people...
...Budapest, as hated as this one was revered. By 1951 the Russians had cleared away the World War II ruins of Regnum Marianum, the famed Roman Catholic church, and erected in its place a 25-ft. bronze statue of Stalin. There he stood, in baggy pants and handlebar mustaches, symbol of Hungary's servitude. One of the manifestoes had called for the removal of the statue. The crowd decided to do its own idol busting...