Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the scenery this contriction is a failing of conception, not coordination. If his draping was meant to invoke the severity of the Castle Adamant the bastion of femininity rampant which is stormed by player and playwright alike, he succeeded all too well. Somehow he should have devised a symbol which could be put aside when bufoonery called...
...week, when Nordhoff died of a heart attack at 69, Wolfsburg had grown from a hamlet to a bustling city of 85,000 as home base for West Germany's largest industry. With assembly plants from Africa to Australia, the bug was the new Model T, a ubiquitous symbol of the West German economic resurrection. Although Italy's Fiat last summer overtook VW as the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), Volkswagen's total sales last year reached $2.3 billion, even after the West German recession of early 1967 forced a temporary...
...bathrooms are occupied. But most of the evening is just about as trite and tedious as a real-life party would have been with such a stereotyped guest list-the dumb cowboy star, the stuffy clubwoman, the fading movie queen, the international-society siren, the current sex symbol...
...focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...Federal Government paying a portion of the bill. Already the $158 million fair has turned 147 acres of downtown San Antonio "from slum to jewel box," as Texas' Governor John Connally puts it, provided the city with a permanent new $13.5 million Civic Center and contributed an impressive symbol of progress in the 622-ft.-high Tower of the Americas, tallest observation tower...