Juan Eduardo Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols (New York Review Books, 2020) The 20th century gave us works that defied traditions across the arts: for instance, Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 The Rite of ...

Why Sheila Heti has kept the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols on her desk for 20 years; This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and ...

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Alphabet's Jigsaw group launched a new project called Sideways Dictionary, which uses wacky analogies to explain tech and cybersecurity jargon. SEE ALSO: Google pledges $11.5 million to racial ...

Greek Dictionary. Active—A member of an organization that is initiated and enrolled in school.; Bid—An invitation for a potential new member to join a particular organization.; Chapter—An individual ...

"One book I go back to is the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, which I've kept on my desk for 20 years. You can look up a symbol and it tells you every association that, more or less, every culture ...

Political symbols can take pretty much any form you can imagine. In 2013, penguins became the symbol of anti-government protesters in Istanbul. When violent clashes between police and protesters ...