Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stable Symbol. There were difficulties in other countries as well. The Social Democratic Party of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt-long a robust symbol of stability-was trounced in one of its traditional strongholds: voters in Hesse, angered in part by Bonn's hedging its promise to raise pensions, swept Christian Democratic candidates into office in every major city, including Frankfurt. In The Netherlands, Premier Joop den Uyl's Cabinet collapsed last week after the moderate Christian Democratic members of his coalition refused to endorse sweeping land expropriation measures proposed by Den Uyl and his Socialist Party...
...fire-bombing of Guernica in April 1937, which razed the entire city, became a symbol of fascist aggression, Southworth said. He said the German air force bombed Guernica for eight hours, and their fighter planes machine-gunned fleeing civilians...
...Congress to repeal the Byrd Amendment, under which the U.S. has been importing Rhodesian chrome since 1972 in violation of U.N. sanctions, will have little effect on the Rhodesian economy, since U.N. sanctions are being violated clandestinely by dozens of countries, including the Soviet Union. As a symbol, however, the U.S. action was the latest in a series of jolts to the Rhodesians' battered morale. Griggs' report...
...species of herbs more deadly than hemlock. Each shrub he cultivates is a hybrid of poison and medicinal, each plant developed as a result of his devotion to science, Dr. Rappaccini's most perfect--and most fatal--creation is his daughter, the beautiful Beatriz. She is a symbol of man's inventiveness to rival Pygmalia. The only mother Beatriz can claim is Curiosity; she knows she belongs body and soul to her father. Her breath poison, her tears acid, Beatriz lures the new Adam, a student named Juan, to descent into the garden from his garret room next door...
...also the perversion of many myths. The forbidden fruit, she is an Italian Beatrice who leads a young man into an inferno, the Christfigure whose father shouts "My child, why have you forsaken me?" This Beatriz not only represents a reworking of past myths, she is also a symbol of moderns. As a solitary prisoner of her condition, she is doomed in her passion for another. She like Juan touches only images of herself--never her true self. Self-conscious but skeptical, both are trapped in a void. More than an adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's familiar tale, Rappaccini...