Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...depict Adam and Eve (see cut) Brancusi returned not to full-bloom Renaissance goddesses but to woman as a primitive symbol of fertility, and Adam as the product of his primitive tools, axed out of wood with a neck suggesting both a tree trunk and a wine press. In a narrow smoothly polished pebble, Brancusi sees the genesis of the fish form; expanded in his streamlined Fish, done in blue-grey marble, it becomes the prototype of all fish, hovering in space as if water were freshly washing past...
...symbol of their victory, Fletcher students yesterday displayed the new School stationery, issued since the Trustees' surrender, which restored Fletcher's name prominently over Tufts University in the letterhead...
...three weeks since Margaret and Peter Townsend had each returned to England, the titillating "will-she-or-won't-she" speculation of the keyhole-peepers had become only a tinkling obbligato behind the sterner voices. Whatever else the royal family may be in modern Britain-symbol of ancient legitimacy, shining emblem of Commonwealth unity, indestructible warranty of the glory that is Britain-it is first and foremost a family affair: every spinster is its maiden aunt, every shopgirl its happily envious kid sister, every vicar its parish priest, and every family man its authoritative uncle. In moments of relative...
Normality in Ermine. In this no longer gay romance, there were no villains, only victims. What modern Britons have come to demand and need most of all from their royal family is example. As the London Times put it last week: "The Queen has come to be the symbol ... in whom the people see their better selves ideally refleeted." But there was a corollary: in reflecting the national ideal, the monarchy must not set itself apart and away from the people it represents. The reflection must be that of normality clothed in ermine, and while the institution remains beyond reproach...
...apocryphal John Harvard continued to contemplate his book last night, but the symbol of Ivy League superiority got little help from anti-Intellectual broom Jockeys who proved that nothing is sacred on All Hallow's Eve by planting a large and cynical pumpkin on top of the book that has for many years held John's undivided attention. But the Grounds Crew came to the slow-witted scholar's rescue with a ladder and a long pole. The crew reported through its collective nose that the intruder suffered from acute internal decay, but the statue maintained its dignity...