Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More than any British aircraft since the ill-starred Comet I, the delta-winged Vulcan bomber has stood as a symbol of Britain's ability to keep abreast of the jet age. One day last week the four-jet, 150,000-lb. Vulcan headed home from a 26,000-mile flight to Australia and back, and R.A.F. officials decided to give it a big welcome at London Airport, where all the world could see and applaud...
...play about the loneliness of the individual." With the movie, however, the focus shifts from the loneliness of individuals to the prejudices of a group. The housemaster, as played--mostly in grunts--by Leif Erickson, does not come out as a person, he is rather a symbol of the exaggerated masculinity whose persecution Tom suffers. With the film's emphasis on the "problem" rather than the people, the schoolmaster's self-doubt--which, in the play, made him human and even sympathetic--is hardly apparent. Similarly, as Tom Lee, John Kerr cannot give his part the truth...
Eide also wrote an article for the Krokodil which will be published shortly. It is a humorous conversation between the Lampoon's symbol, the Ibis, and the Russian magazine's mascot, a crocodile. Eide said that the article contains a humorous jab at Russia's poor modern architecture. In the article, Ibis says, "I liked St. Basil's best of all the buildings...
...working Line Coach Daugherty supplied some exceptionally well-trained gorillas. Overnight, State became a major football power. All the offstage opposition mustered by its Ann Arbor rival, the University of Michigan, could not keep it out of the Big Ten. In a league where almost every school is a symbol of state pride, the rivalry between Michigan and M.S.U. became understandably bitter. This week the two rivals meet again, and Michigan's campus will be littered with signs reading "Cream MOO U," an unkind reference to State's beginnings as a cow college...
There was much enthusiasm for Foster Furcolo ("symbol of democracy") and his wife (who sat on her mink stole). The high point of his speech came when he noted the high price of food and asked who got the profit. "Does the small grocer get the profit?" "NO!" cried the audience. "Does the farmer get the profit?" "NO!" "Then the question is, who gets the profit." My friend said, "That's a pretty damn good question...