Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more different men could hardly be imagined. There was Charles de Gaulle, soldier, statesman, and symbol of a nation's pride, who once wrote that a great leader must "possess something indefinable, mysterious." And there was Hubert Horatio Humphrey, the boy from the drug store in Huron, S. Dak., who likes to say that a politician must "never forget he's just one of the folks." Yet in their meeting last week amid the Louis XV antiques of Paris' Elysee Palace, the French President and the U.S. Vice President got on quite nicely together...
...Prewar Symbol. Whether he would have anyone to run against was unexpectedly thrown in doubt last week. Suddenly dashed were the hopes of Socialist Candidate Gaston Defferre, who had boldly tried to forge a federation of the socialist left and Catholic center parties, thus building a potent opposition to the Gaullists out of the splintered factions that still plague French politics (TIME, June 18). After a week of bitter negotiations, representatives of the center and left parties found themselves hopelessly at odds over all the old divisions that rent the Fourth Republic: state aid to schools, nationalization, relations with...
...follow the demise of Gaullism in France. In the wake of Defferre's failure, it was symptomatic that Paris was talking about the possible candidature of onetime Premier Antoine Pinay. Pinay would appeal to the pro-Atlantic, anti-Gaullist conservative vote. But he is also the very symbol of prewar, smalltown, middle-class Catholic France-and he is, at 73, only 13 months younger than Charles de Gaulle himself...
...Mitchum scarcely can find any time for Carroll Baker, who speaks a few words of Swahili rather competently and lets the rest of her lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter who aspires to become a sex symbol, but in movies as forced, synthetic and flaccid as Mister Moses, one false image more or less need not be held up to undue scorn...
Like his other books, The Tin Drum and Cat and Mouse, and like the rest of the new generation of German fiction, it deals with the Nazi era. Dog Years is powerful, jumbled, symbol-cluttered, too long, exhausting. It drifts in and out of fantasy, scratches at memories as if they were swords too dangerous to grasp, and says nothing directly. The narrative follows, circles about, sniffs at, is diverted from, and returns to the careers of two friends, boys who were born in 1917 in a fishing village on the Baltic...