Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most remote Northeastern hamlet. And, far from least, King Bhumibol Adulyadej can trace his Chakri dynasty in an unbroken line back to 1782. The King's picture hangs in practically every house and humble hut in Thailand, where he is not only liked and considered a symbol of Thai independence, but revered as a living...
...quality, an entirely different world, transcendent and holy." Beginning with a quotation from Goethe's Faust, another essay in the book explores the widespread legend that God and the Devil were brothers, and relates it to the equally ancient conception of the androgyne (hermaphrodite) as a mystical symbol of wholeness; both stories, Eliade argues, represent man's prephilosophic attempt to reconcile the existence in the world of such opposites as good and evil...
Achieving the Symbol. The intense activity represents the latest stage in Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi's three-year-old "White Revolution" (so called because it has been bloodless), a grand design that is intended to wrest Iran from the middle ages into modern industrialized society. Having laid the groundwork through extensive land reforms and a massive literacy drive and aided by annual oil royalties worth more than $500 million and an influx of $2 billion in foreign investment capital, the Shah has launched his country headlong into what is far and away the Middle East's fastest-moving...
...seven new hydroelectric dams will provide by 1967. In recent months, the U.S.'s American Motors, Britain's Rootes, France's Citroën and West Germany's Volkswagen have all signed deals to begin assembling cars in Iran, thus giving the country that ultimate symbol of industrialization, an auto industry...
Patrick White is such a confident contortionist. His double-spiraled mandala is the Hindu symbol of totality embedded in a glass marble, and his vast pretension is to spin out this bauble to encompass all human life in the person of its owner-an Australian half-wit half-man living in a suburb of Sydney...