Word: symbolization
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...year 1892 was an annus mirabilis in the U.S. The best symbol of that was Chicago, a city leveled by fire as recently as 1871 but subsequently bristling with the continent's first cluster of skyscrapers. For the 1893 World's Fair that became known as the World's Columbian Exposition, Daniel Burnham and a panel of America's greatest architects created a gleaming new Exposition city on Lake Michigan. Henry Adams, arriving in the private train car of a Pennsylvania Senator, was struck with a vision of a new America; he returned alone to spend two weeks studying...
...seem not in the celebrating mood. Chicago turned down the honor of mounting another Columbian Exposition. Our federal commission on the quincentennial floundered in scandal and ineptitude during the six years John Goudie presided over it. The Columbus now being described is a rather bedraggled figure, a symbol of empire in a postcolonial age, when most of the world is celebrating the breakup of empires, not their inception. The facts ! about Columbus always mattered less, to his admirers, than the uses he could be put to. Those uses have, by now, drastically shrunk...
...coup, and the military was still throwing its weight around. Now many of the more obstreperous senior officers have been summarily retired. Still, there are plenty of people in Moscow -- not all of them in uniform -- who are desperate to cling to Soviet strategic nuclear strength as the last symbol of their country's superpower status. For that reason alone they will resist further cuts...
Campus activists who decry all military organizations don't take this under consideration, Field says. "ROTC is caught in the middle," he says. "ROTC can't do anything about it. We're just a symbol...
...horrible day 1,600 years ago, the wisdom of many centuries went up in flames. The great library in Alexandria burned down, a catastrophe at the time and a symbol for all ages of the vulnerability of human knowledge. The tragedy forced scholars to grope to reconstruct a grand literature and science that once lay neatly cataloged in scrolls...