Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except perhaps the bearded befuddleniks, can seriously fault your choice. At least Westmoreland is a good symbol for the real Men of the Year who are dying in Viet...
Harvard Board of Overseers, a member of the first White House Conference on Education, and organizer of the National Citizens Commission for the Pub lic Schools-a "kind of symbol of the lay person who has been concerned for the future of education," as Harvard President Nathan Pusey put it at the dedication.* Architecturally, the building's distinction is its flexibility. Such immovable objects as stairs, elevators and ventilating shafts are arranged along the outer walls, leaving unobstructed central floor space on its eight levels so that inner partitions can be shifted at will. A few small outer...
...barren pedestal. Both figures are skeletal, their contours a last frontier against nothingness. Both, despite their perilous proximity, seem abandoned in a void. But they exist. This is the main and master image in the art of Alberto Giacometti. It is his desperate, yet defiant picture of mankind, a symbol of the mid-20th century crisis of humanism-and the likeness of Giacometti himself...
...conscious of the ambivalence inspired by Capote's structural framework and tonal detachment, the reader finds himself stripped of objectivity. He is forced to participate intensely, not vicariously, in the public phenomenon of impersonal terror; and allowed to share in the private world of personal fantasy--where a childhood symbol such as Perry Smith's avenging parrot "flying overhead, red and green/green and tangerine" becomes a vision that enobles a headline terrorist...
...more expensive merchandise to compete. Few stores had a better Christmas than Tiffany's, where sales rose 30%. Explains Chairman Walter Hoving: "The excise-tax cut made people feel more prosperous. They spent their money on jewels." The A. & P. is grading up its image with the ultimate symbol of affluence: its own "A.& P. Champagne" (cost...