Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unusual Door. Tallest and most obvious symbol of all this rejuvenation is a newly constructed, 14-story, $8,500,000 office building that rises above Universal City, the 425-acre home lot of Universal Pictures and Universal Television-and of MCA Inc., which owns both. Two years ago, at the insistence of the U.S. Department of Justice, MCA ceased to be the world's largest talent agency, preferring to concentrate on its efforts as a film studio, and it has since become the world's largest motion picture and television company. More than any other studio...
...look at the bulging buttocks of the squat female figurine and British Archaeologist James Mellaart recognized a Stone Age fertility symbol; the dig he was starting on a plain in southern Turkey promised to open a door onto the most ancient reaches of human civilization. Mellaart treated every crum bling bit of dirt as a hard-to-read book, and after three years of diligent scratching through the 32-acre mound called Qatal Hiiyiik, he is now piecing together the story of a city that flourished at least 3,000 years before the first Pharaoh ruled in Egypt...
...queen' or a 'sex symbol,' " said Taylor. "I don't think I want to be one. Sex symbol kind of suggests bathrooms in hotels or something. I do know I'm a movie star and I like being a woman, and I think sex is absolutely gorgeous. But as far as a sex goddess, I don't worry myself that way . . . Richard is a very sexy man. He's got that sort of jungle essence that one can sense . . . When we look at each other, it's like our eyes have fingers...
Changed Rhythm. According to Princeton Theologian M. Richard Schaull, worship ought to be "an expression in symbol and sacrament of what God is doing to make human life human." Many clergymen, and laymen too, question whether existing patterns of worship are suited to the church of the future. The long weekend and the five-day week have already changed the rhythm of life that made Sunday morning the natural time to pay homage to God. In the 21st century, liturgies may be celebrated-as they were in the early church-in homes or places of work, and rarely...
...mean the American Automobile Association to millions of Americans, but to cities, states and corporations in search of money it is a supreme symbol of solvency, the highest accolade Wall Street can bestow. Armed with that much-sought but carefully dispensed rating, a borrower can attract more investors, get by with paying lower interest rates on loans, and generally profit by the blue-chip aura that prime rating bestows in the business world...