Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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like it. In the future, the expenditure of rupees in Mysore will be
carefully watched. The maharaja has decreed a tax of 16
...pistol and rifle. "If the king's police had won the battle, the prosecutor of that time would have dragged these young people into court and called them hooligans and criminal elements. But since the revolution was won, they are national heroes, and their picture has become a symbol of revolution." Hejmowski's meaning was clear: when the "revolution," i.e., Po land's break away from the Russians, is consummated the defendants in the Poznan court might well become heroes...
...literally lead to error. Every formula, every attempt to enclose reality within words and concepts, which is true within limits and is adapted to the time and occasion, will serve as a support of contemplation, an aid toward the understanding of that which can be enclosed in no formula, symbol or doctrine. The doctrines are not irresponsible. We cannot think as we like. Nor are they unnecessary. The language in which the truth is expressed consists of many dialects adapted to the needs of the different peoples...
...Morris has also captured the poignance of the lonely in the gregarious accents of Midwest speech. At novel's end there is a fracas in the bull ring, and the boy with the Davy Crockett hat touches the still-warm hide of the bull. It is the aptest symbol for what is wrong with this consistently intelligent but overly symbolized novel - still warm but, by the narrowest of margins, dead...
Rattigan's symbol for this oppressive and even anxious loneliness is the separate dining room tables of an English residential hotel. In each of the two plays a man and a woman who have rejected each other, but yet cannot stand the separate tables, find each other once again. Meanwhile, other characters who for various reasons do manage to live alone are seated at other single tables, serving as contrasts and catalysts to the central figures...