Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from New London, Conn., on a cruise to New York, slips the symbol of them all: the nuclear submarine Nautilus, its atomic engines still generating untold power after a year-and upwards of 30,000 miles-without refueling...
...creep in. Some friends of McKay have been looking at Hitchcock's record, and are saying that "the issue is whether we want to nomi nate another Wayne Morse." Says Hitchcock guardedly, in a state where Democrats have made the McKay-approved Hells Canyon dam project a symbol of "giveaway": "My activities as an Eisenhower Republican will not be tied to the policies of one controversial department...
...magazine devoted to first-class poetry. Now each may stake half a claim to a new bimonthly: Poetry London-New York. Price: 75? a copy. Stamped on the sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind the would-be poetic renaissance...
...feature, Touch and Go, but an hour-long documentary entitled Helen Keller in Her Story. Much adulation has been poured on Miss Keller and much has been written about her, including a good deal of pseudo-inspirational treacle. She has been variously called a saint and used as a symbol of hope and human aspiration. But the excesses of hero-worship have tended to obscure the fact that Miss Keller is a most charming human being. It is the great service of this film that it reveals her as such...
...hours of college lectures could. Your text served mainly to point out one glaring id-ego-syncrasy in Freud's primary approach: if he had only asked the question "Why am I?" rather than "What am I?" his searching would have led eventually to the soul-triumphant symbol of the Cross rather than the sex-triumphant symbol of the couch...