Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 4,000 miles to the east, sturdy old (80) Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany was a significant symbol of this interdependence. Preparatory to a long-planned trip to the U.S., Adenauer had just coped successfully with some of the basic problems vexing his government at home (see FOREIGN NEWS). By going to Washington he hoped to strengthen his position with the U.S. and thus with the world. But Washington meant Dwight Eisenhower: before boarding the plane, Adenauer was told of Eisenhower's illness, and his hopes fell. After he landed in New York, he was informed that...
...black-spotted rat, as big as a rabbit, and he is stalked through the sewers of a French provincial town by the health board and its ratcatchers as assiduously as Melville's Ahab hunted the great white whale. Like Moby Dick, the great black rat is a symbol of evil and of an ambiguous enveloping doom far beyond the petty retribution of its death...
...Symbols & Tags. Though almost as old as the nation, the cries of anti-intellectualism from one side and anti-Americanism from the other seem to be dominant themes in the postwar era. If the symbol of the '20s was the disgruntled intellectual who went to live in Europe, the present symbol-to the pessimists, at least-is the disgruntled intellectual who has stayed at home because he has no other place to go. The crusading muckraker, the flamboyant expatriate, the dedicated brain-truster-all these convenient tags are gone. While the European intellectual goes about his traditional business...
...creativity at the bud. On these assumptions, i.e. urges a thorough revision of present concepts of the University, including fewer papers and the abolition of lectures and exams. To be perfectly consistent in its structure of prestige, i.e.'s ideal university would also have no degrees or any other symbol of competence. Present methods of challenging incompetence are certainly not ideal, but in the present state of society it seems difficult to do without some formal evaluation of the individual, especially if he is to set himself up as an expert or professional. Having marks may encourage the prestige...
...intellectual morale ... in the undergraduate group as a whole." This is so untrue as to smack of totalitarian scapegoatism. Unless the editors of i.e. spend a great deal of time with "clubbies," it is difficult to see how the clubs can affect their morale. The clubs may be a symbol of hypocrisy, but this does not mean that they are the root of all prestige-consciousness. When one reads assertions as reck-less as these, it convinces him that id est, the Cambridge Review, is a good example of how un-repressive the University as Superego actually is. In spite...