Word: archsymbol
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...although "Entartete Kunst" is still an archsymbol of cultural repression, it remains vague in detail. The catalog was a mere brochure, and only a few photos of the actual installation seem to have survived. What, exactly, was in the show? Below the obvious surface of anti-Semitic and anti- Modernist stereotypes, what did it actually represent? How did it fit into the larger programs of Nazism, and why was it so popular...
...boss told him to pick a vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol of the imperialist and the aggressor. But here in Israel it's safe to be an aggressor, no?" He drank the Coke...
...change in suits has been just as dramatic. A generation ago, the double-breasted suit-usually with padded shoulders and large lapels-was the archsymbol of conservatism (it also camouflaged a potbelly). Now the trend is to the more casual, natural-shouldered, single-breasted jacket. Before World War II, double-breasted suits accounted for 40-50% of all cuttings; the share is now down...
Anybody with $206 had a chance to become a stockholder of J. P. Morgan & Co. this week. The House of Morgan, once the archsymbol of financial privacy, took the first step toward public ownership when it incorporated in 1940. This week it took another; through Smith, Barney & Co. it offered 16,500 of its 200,000 capital shares for sale at $206 each...
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