Word: symbolization
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...Sunday they buried Timely Writer near another immortal--the filly Ruffian on Belmont's grassy infield. They buried him quietly, one-eighth of a mile from the post, fitting symbol of the colt's shortened career. There won't be any future generations of Timely Writer breezing around American tracks in 'his fine tradition. But people in Boston and elsewhere will remember this horse for his extraordinary courage, as he lies on Long Island forever one furlong from the finish line...
...called Green Line that since the 1975-76 civil war had divided the capital into a pre dominantly Muslim West and a Christian East. At a festive Beirut ceremony, complete with Lebanese military bands playing Yankee Doodle, Gemayel called the relinking of the city "a symbol of national unity and unity of the hearts...
...Margaret Mead might have described the scene as a tribal rite of the global village; Marshall McLuhan might cite it as proof that the medium is indeed the message. But to Professor Feshbach as well as to Joan Anderson Wilkins, a researcher on family issues, it was not a symbol but an illustration of something more portentous: television addiction. Those nursery-school students are video junkies...
...kept no journal and left no autobiography. There are, of course, his famous letters. He was always respectful and loving to the censorious Papa Leopold. For Maria Anna Thekla ("Bäsle"), the "little cousin" from Augsburg, he concocted an impish scatology ("Our arses shall be the symbol of our peacemaking!"), and his epistolary requests for from his generous friend Michael Puchberg read like a parody of abject pleading...
...Industry and Religion. But what the women in A Bloodsmoor Romance seem to do most is knit, embroider and crochet. So assiduous is one character that she produces an antimacassar "somewhat above the conventional in length, being 1,358 yards, or some three-quarters of a mile .. ."-the perfect symbol for the futility and tedium of Oates' novel. -By Patricia Blake