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...suddenly within reach of the average family, and an egalitarian society was no longer some impossible ideal. Automobile ownership, reported Robert and Helen Lynd in Middletown, soon became "an accepted essential of normal living." Even in the abyss of the Depression, families clung to their cars as the American emblem of self-respect...
...fate of one such ghetto has become an emblem of resistance: the Warsaw inmates, pitifully outnumbered by SS troops, battled with pistols, rocks and knives against tanks and cannons. In May 1943, along with the buildings that held them, the fighters were reduced to ashes. Monuments have risen to commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz...
...believe it either. But 5, 38, 42, 18, 17, 1-a combination Pagano put together by chance, using a phone number on a passing taxi-won him a $20 million jackpot, the largest lottery prize ever paid to a single individual. A retired carpenter, the newest emblem of fortune's fancy insists that his 21 yearly checks for $761,904 (after some taxes are withheld) will not change his lifestyle. "I got my house, I got my tomatoes, I got whatever I need," says Pagano, who likes to grow vegetables in his backyard. "The friends I have, they will...
...gets applause, even gasps, night after night. It is a simple chorus-girl kick, the torso tilting back for balance, the long, long left leg surging straight up above the head. But it is also an emblem-of a career that has gone everywhere, yet still draws its inspiration and discipline from dance, of a body that at mid-century is still supple and streamlined and surefooted. It is a kick of jubilation, of pride, perhaps of defiance. And of beauty...
...White Album, essays written between 1968 and 1978. Those were the years when the author spent "what seemed to many people I knew an eccentric amount of time in Honolulu," and when she published "In the Islands," a breathtaking meditation on depression and fragmentation that became an emblem of the late '60s. Those were also the years when Didion did some chilly observing of Nancy Reagan in the uncomfortable role of the perfect Governor's wife. Although the Victors have Kennedyesque political notions and glamour, the hilarious backroom detail in Democracy may come from Sacramento...