Word: iconizing
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Beale says that he considers the Harvard statue a "National icon...
...many of the students around Garwolin would agree. At week's end a few hundred of them made a 130-mile pilgrimage to Czestochowa, home of the revered Black Madonna icon. Before the pilgrims left Garwolin, the Rev. Stanislaw Binko of the Church of the Transfiguration told them, "That which is happening before our eyes speaks to the whole world. Be brave...
...Read "A Pop Icon's Death: The Talent and the Tragedy...
...figured that even though Harvard did not have a particularly strong Computer Science department when I considered applying--in fact is didn't even exist--a school with its academic reputation would have to fix that icon," he explains...
Eakins' masterpiece, The Gross Clinic, 1875, certainly bridges two cultural worlds. On the one hand, one can read it as a very American icon of progress; it is a fervent, secular celebration of objective scientific knowledge, with the realism of paint serving that of science. Dr. Gross, light shining from his high forehead and glittering on his bloody hand and scalpel, is a pragmatic hero, and his skill is set before us as part of his American nature...