Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gathered at Bombay Airport to welcome homecoming Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru back from his good-will tour of Europe and Russia last week. "In the countries I visited," Neutralist Nehru was telling the dignitaries gathered in a nearby hangar, "I was welcomed not for myself, but as a symbol, a symbol of India and peace." At that point the weary policemen's arms gave out, and the welcoming crowd roared across the airstrip, trampling men, women and children in their enthusiastic rush to get closer to the great man. Hastily abandoning his speech, Nehru prudently retreated out a back...
...only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made. I never go onstage without saying 'Here I am, Lord, use me.' I have had almost a vocation from childhood to be a religious . . . The dance is religion. It is the finest symbol of the activity of God that we have in this world...
...topic of the Parley at the Summit will be disarmament-symbol of the worldwide yearning for peace...
...Pelasgians and others, and changing them from female to male. They gave the manly sun priority over the womanly moon. They made a hero out of a man like Hercules, changing him from a mere lover-victim of the goddess into a lusty seducer of hapless nymphs and a symbol of strength. Socrates and Plato, Graves insists, went so far as to reject the female element completely, injected into Western veins a strong shot of romantic homosexuality that persists to this...
Great Grizzly. Ironically, Graves is a living symbol of masculine energy and patriarchal virility. Twice married, he is the father of seven children, ranging in age from 36 to 2. At 59, he is still husky, cleaves the air with a great Roman nose which he once broke playing Rugby. He looks and moves like a grizzly bear, is an authority on army obscenity, can boom out many a bawdy, masculine song to his own guitar accompaniment. In Majorca he rises early, scorns the Spaniards' late meal hours, tucks away hearty platters of nononsense, British-type roast lamb, cabbage...