Word: symbolizing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...
...avenging Bacchantes, who tore Orpheus apart in the ancient myth, is now taken by a seedy bunch of envious poets who gather in what looks like Paris' Café de Flore. When characters shuttle between this life and the next, they glide through mirrors-Cocteau's favorite symbol of the doorway to death ("Look at yourself in a mirror all your life, and you will see death at work like bees in a hive of glass...
...headquarters at Armagh, near Belfast in Northern Ireland, where King Daire of Airgialla gave him the ground for a church and a monastery. Armagh is still the ecclesiastical capital of Ireland, with a Protestant and a Roman Catholic cathedral. Both Northern and Southern Irishmen think of it as a symbol of their golden age 1,500 years ago when Ireland was a small bright spot in a Europe plunging down to darkness. The two hostile factions of modern Ireland hold little else in common...
Last week a project was announced that would add to Armagh's value as a symbol of peace in Ireland. The governments of both the North and the South were backing a planetarium at the ancient See of St. Patrick. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of Ireland, and His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Gregg, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of the Church of Ireland, have given the project their blessings. Ex-Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, now Chancellor of Ireland's National University, is on the planetarium...
...woman--a fascinating, living one--while Miller has intended Willy Loman to represent more than just one man. Willy is more than a husband, a father, or a salesman who is failure. He is a man whom we see crushed to death by the world, and he is a symbol of all such men. That is the basic reason for the pessimism of "Death of a Salesman...