Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some lived in Spanish castles and French cháteaux so opulently furnished that even the chamber pots were made of silver. Nearly every tree on the pampas was laboriously planted by man. The ultimate status symbol was a eucalyptus-tree drive leading up to the manse, and some of them ran straight as a string for seven miles...
Priorities of Fear. Roche has no patience with liberal apologists for totalitarians of the left like Castro: "I have never known a man who treated a gun as a symbol-instead of an instrument-who was not fundamentally depraved. When such an addict of romantic violence appears in politics mouthing left-wing slogans, are we to deny the insights of experience for the nostalgia of a phrase?" Roche also advises liberals to stop worrying and writing so much about the radical right. Right-wing extremists like the late Joseph F. McCarthy and Robert Welch must be fought but kept...
...granddaddy was a Texan, but Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, 54, is an Eastern dude. Nonetheless, he knows that out West, it ain't spurs that go jingle, jangle, jingle, it's those silver dollars the mountain folk use as a status symbol to stun the visitors. Caving in to Western mining-state demands, Congress approved funds to mint 45 million new cart wheels, as recommended by neatly lassoed Dillon, who called them "a traditional medium of exchange in many Western states." So they are, in one vital area of commerce: there's no earthly...
...their mid-40s, earn an average income of $27,000. It costs a company $2,000, plus expenses and salary, to enroll an executive, and the gold "sign of Hermes" tie tack presented to graduates has come to rank with the private ice-water carafe as a status symbol back at the home office. Though some participants never really break away from their desks for the six-week period and try to run things back at headquarters with flurries of long-distance telephone calls, most men-flattered at being chosen-drop everything to take the course, and leave their business...
...work? Perhaps the most publicly visible symptoms of the dilemma, and the most pathetic, are the "latchkey kids." They are conspicuous in troubled Harlem, but are also observable in nearly every large U.S. city. Altogether, there are nearly 500,000 U.S. children who wear around their necks this symbol of desperation and neglect. The key unlocks half a million different doors, opens the way into half a million different, equally empty rooms. No one is ever waiting for the latchkey kids-at least not until Mother gets home from work...