Word: symbolized
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...George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire among its ranks has been a favorite target for conspiracy theorists since the 17th century, when Masonic lodges first spread across Europe. Now best-selling novelist Dan Brown has taken aim at the group's cultlike reputation in his latest book, The Lost Symbol - a fact that comes as no surprise to author Jay Kinney. In his own new book, The Masonic Myth, Kinney attempts to dispel some of the persistent rumors about the group by explaining how he became a Freemason himself. (See the top 10 conspiracy theories...
...just things: they mean something. Brown's hero, Robert Langdon, is after all a symbologist (following a branch of human intellectual inquiry that - it cannot be stated enough times - doesn't exist, at Harvard or anywhere else). Beneath his learned, oddly asexual caress, objects come to life and become symbols. A V isn't just a V, it's a chalice, a symbol of the eternal feminine. Chaos is secretly order. Noise is secretly signal...
...Germany will not tolerate Nazi symbols for a couple of generations. Simply seeing the swastika causes most Germans terrible anguish. Besides, why should public display of a symbol be legally permitted when the party it stands for is verboten? Alan Benson, BERLIN...
...garden is an incredibly potent symbol. It came up over and over in interviews. And people do see it as something which is a - just a symbol of all these other ideas that we're talking about...
Hyatt, which owns or operates 413 branded hotels encompassing 119,509 rooms in 45 countries, filed in August with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise at least $1.15 billion dollars through an IPO, and will trade on the NYSE under the stock symbol H. The date and pricing of the offering have not yet been named. Hyatt's IPO will be the country's second largest this year, according to Dealogic...