Meaning of dove of peace | Babel Free

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The dove as a symbol of peace and pacifism, typically depicted carrying an olive branch.

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“The second half of the programme was to belong to Surkov. He was given an enthusiastic reception as he strode onstage, his jeans skintight, his T-shirt embossed with a dove of peace, his yellow hair flapping.”

“Most psychedelic response to a painkiller / “Rainbows, white puffy clouds, doves of peace flying across the sky. Mozart on the piano, contrary motion scales, arpeggios up and down the keyboard, Beethoven—crashing thunder—it was all so beautiful. It was all so perfect.” / Bill Walton, 2002”

“In November 1950, Paix et liberté released a poster entitled “La colombe qui fait boum” (“The dove that goes boom!”). The motif, a tank disguised as a dove of peace, was very close to the illustration for a book that Taubert had published[…].”

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