Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little.' Drive out to the Bonfire Restaurant and have a piece of their chocolate cake. It's about a foot high. Sure, nobody needs this, but that's Miami Beach. Wolfie's delicatessen has pastrami sandwiches three inches thick -it's kind of a symbol. So if the hotels seem overplush...
...quite sure what kind of thing they have created-or what are its ultimate potential and limitations. The computer, says Dr. Herbert A. Simon of Carnegie Tech, represents "an advance in man's thinking processes as radical as the invention of writing." Yet the computer is neither the symbol of the millennium nor a flawless rival of the human brain. For all its fantastic memory and superhuman mathematical ability, it is incapable of exercising independent judgment, has no sense of creativity and no imagination...
...Last December he made a ludicrously abortive attempt, was turned back in Rio. Today, most of Perón's top lieutenants privately concede the impossibility of el retorno. Perón is under tight restriction by the Spanish government, and he is aging. But he remains a symbol of strength in a country that lacks leadership. In Madrid last week he took a haughty view of the election. "The people," he told friends, "have shown a high degree of maturity in their vote...
...down in the Pacific nearly two years ago, on May 16, 1963-and even the Mercury program is now ancient history. The only landmarks left for the busloads of tourists who roll through the spaceport is a memorial Mercury-type gantry and a stainless-steel monument shaped like the symbol for the planet Mercury ( §) with a "7" in the loop. It stands at the entrance to Pad 14 where Glenn & Co. embarked...
Suspecting a symbol, we set Chambers equal to God. And why not? The label fits as well as any other. Chambers is a judge who spends his time "writing laws," according to his wife, Elizabeth. His mother Mary is a violently possessive hag who wears a massive wooden cross around her neck. Apparently, Sunday is Chambers' favorite day. Many other students have searched for him, but he is inaccessible. What could be more perfect...