Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Symbol v. Symbol. Chevrolet Dealer McKay and Lawyer Morse were never meant to be friends. McKay slogged his way up through Oregon's G.O.P. ranks, from mayor of Salem to the state senate to governor. Morse, propelled by his erratic genius, soared to position virtually independent of party. He served with distinction as dean of the University of Oregon Law School, later entered upon a glittering career under Franklin Roosevelt, first as chairman of the Railway Emergency Board, then as a member of the War Labor Board. In 1944 he ran for the U.S. Senate from Oregon...
...Lloyd flew on to Karachi, by way of New Delhi, Pakistan chose that moment to declare itself an Islamic republic and to emphasize its optional ties to the British Empire. "We accept the Queen not as our sovereign, but as the symbol of free association of the Commonwealth," declared Prime Minister Chaudri Mohammed...
...publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms, become a Roman Catholic, and is running a kind of cooperative flophouse hostel for Bowery bums. Tom pooh-poohs this project and is much more susceptible...
There used to be a Rebellion Tree in the Yard. No longer does anyone know where it stood or when it was uprooted. Yet that it did exist is quite certain from the numerous references to it in old documents. And that it was the very symbol of the former rebellious spirit of the Harvard undergraduate--now apparently gone forever--is also quite certain...
...case, The Rebellion Tree spirit vanished forever from the College after the summer of 1834, eventually followed by its symbol as well. Pogo riots, football rallies, or Radcliffe raids are this generation's poor substitutes...