Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, I took rather perverse satisfaction in discovering that even TIME (which was, and is, my symbol of accuracy) occasionally blunders. If that's not former Dictator Trujillo in your *picture captioned "Bosch in Puerto Rico," I'll gladly pay double for next week's edition...
...beaches of Southern California, the odd-looking knobs that can be seen protruding just below the kneecaps and on the top of the feet of suntanned surfboarders are generally recognized as a status symbol, the mark of a practiced wave rider. The medical significance of the strange lumps is a knottier problem, and West Coast doctors are now seeing more and more evidence of such surf board trauma...
...mother rests with her squalling baby as if on a pilgrimage. Another panel above the doors bears the letters ITALIA and a wishbone-shaped motif of intertwined wheat stalks and vines. Like the bunches of onions hanging in Manzù's kitchen near Rome, it is a fruitful symbol of the emigrant's search, as the sculptor says, for "the two principal things-drinking and eating...
...life along that hypocritical boundary. Her home country remains the setting for most of these 16 new stories, but the setting has become incidental; the characters are caught in emotional suspensions that have no geographical limits. Gradwell, in The Pet, hates the bulldog kept by his white employers: "Symbol of all the white man's savage glee in turning the black man from his door." But the dog is something of a misfit himself: he refuses to bark at strangers, ignores the bitch brought around for mating purposes. He is indeed a great, slobbering, sheepish failure "always conscious...
Bernays knew that the frame of reference in which the battle was to be shaped in the public eye was of supreme importance. Resentment against Harvard or trees as a symbol of the upper class, or of fighting against progress, for example, must be avoided...