Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ever since Ludwig Erhard became Chancellor a year ago, his Christian Democrats have been confident that his familiar bulky form-the very symbol of peacetime prosperity-would carry the party to an easy victory in next year's nationwide elections. Last week, in municipal elections involving 45% of the voters, their confidence got a bit of a jolt...
Happy's lawyers simply described her as "deeply grieved." Tangible symbol of that grief, and of the optimism that preceded it, was the Rockefellers' addition of an entire children's floor-complete with playroom, nurse's quarters and library-to their Fifth Avenue apartment...
...quarter-century, French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has been the symbol of what is best (implacable honesty) and worst (rootless pessimism) about the modern European intellectual. He has been the pre-eminent philosopher of despair. Simultaneously, with his novels and plays he has cast himself as a propagandist on the barricades of social justice-in fact on both sides of the barricades, since despite a markedly Red-leaning political line, he has never joined the Communist Party and has periodically quarreled with it. Living his preachments in private as well as in politics, he has maintained with Simone de Beauvoir...
...actor was Hollywood's greatest contribution to folklore-the Tramp, symbol of the indomitable little guy preposterously pitted against the tyranny of circumstances and the system. The man was something quite different -notoriously vain, snobbish, difficult to know and to work with. He thumbed his nose at the ancient rule that a prominent man may get away with flamboyant politics or flamboyant sex, but never both. The combination turned a large part of the U.S. press and public noisily against Charles Spencer Chaplin, and in a sneering rage, he left the country...
...writing a polemic about the meaning of passion narrows the author's exploration of the subject. Once he sets up desire as a symbol of say, rejuvenation, he cannot examine aspects of desire inconsistent with that symbol. This problem naturally limits the autobiographer's reminiscences. Lawrence could not includes humorous reflections on passion in Women in Love without contradicting the tone...