Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...restaurant run by three somewhat pathetic, somewhat noble women. Just as the audience begins to understand their funny view of the world, their hopeless ineptitude, and their dreams of beauty and happiness, a new element enters the story. Although not exactly a personification of evil, Mr. Perkins is the symbol of business, advertising, wealth and anal compulsiveness; through his intervention the restaurant stages a glowing comeback and the women's dreams are quite thoroughly extinguished...
...least a third of the audience stalks out in anger. Dick Gregory of course is the black black humorist. Lenny Bruce, the sick, beat comic who is currently appealing his conviction in New York City for obscene monologues, is still admired by some black humorists as a symbol of "total commitment," though in recent years his commitment to satire has seemed to degenerate into a monotonous self-destructive scatology...
...Robert McNamara, 48, with a "respiratory infection." Pennsylvania's Governor William Scranton, 47, and New York's former Senator Kenneth Keating, 64, were snuffling in Harrisburg and Washington's Georgetown University Hospital respectively, while guess who at week's end was nursing the latest status symbol? H.H.H...
...eyes at are sous cloche. How could he? Of 6,000,000 contact wearers in the U.S. last year, nearly 65% were women. Since contact lenses first became widely available in 1953, bad eyesight has not only won social acceptability; among the young, particularly, it has become a status symbol...
...Maginot Line psychology, seeking security behind a pitifully inadequate nuclear arsenal that could conceivably invite attack. Aron is not necessarily opposed to France's nuclear force if it is accepted as a hedge against the "unpredictability of future diplomacy," but he scoffs at the notion that this "symbol of patriotic pride" could ever be a credible substitute for the U.S. deterrent...