Word: symbolization
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...Home Again, became a rallying cry. William Faulkner later appraised him as one of the most important contemporary American writers. But even in his lifetime, Wolfe was cruelly parodied, and after his death from tuberculosis in 1938 at the age of 38, he fell into disfavor, a symbol of self-indulgence and creative excess...
...Veronica Slater, a white woman, for which Sibiya is tried, convicted and sentenced to death. The story is told in the first person by Sibiya in the few days before his execution. There are few characters, and they are hardly developed; even Sibiya seems largely just a symbol, a spokesman and martyr for all of South Africa's Blacks. And the essential subject of the novel remains from beginning to end the larger picture of life under apartheid...
Reagan as symbol of America, as angel of our better natures, as reconciler of our meaner aspects into a smiling strength, as folksy commander of a worldwide empire -- all these were images too high or too deep for ordinary political criticism. How he came to that eminence was a matter of shared history between him and the American electorate -- shared innocence about the responsibilities of great power, about what he deplores as "government" in keeping the accounts of a great nation and a world power...
...symbol of working for change in SouthAfrica," said Sidel. "It's nice to be a part ofthat effort and be recognized by him as part ofthat effort...
Cheers of "Come on, Mal" and "Go, Mal" arise from the Briggs bleachers. Mal Hollensteiner is a symbol of the future for the Harvard men's basketball team...