Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Encyclopaedia Britannica, which will correct the misconception of Artemis of Ephesus you printed in a caption [Dec. 13]. "The usual figure of the Ephesian Artemis, which was said in the first instance to have fallen from heaven, is in the form of a female with many breasts, the symbol of productivity or a token of her function as the all-nourishing mother." Ostrich eggs indeed...
...least 200 undergraduates in Burr B Wednesday night came prepared to love Paul Goodman. His reputation as political anarchist and sexual libertine had preceded him, and many came to watch him make things hot for Dr. Graham Blaine, who has by now become something of a resented symbol of the University's conservative sex policies...
...royal elephant taking part in the elaborate ceremonies. In Thailand, as elsewhere in Asia, the once enormous importance of the elephant has declined drastically. While elephant ownership is still considered prestigious, a new Cadillac or Mercedes (the King owns several of each) now rates far higher as a status symbol than a mature, 15-year-old Elephas maximus with 40 years of rugged mileage ahead...
Joan Cohn calls him "the boy prince." As a symbol of devotion, she once gave him a lavender Rolls-Royce with his initials on it. Harvey is among the financial backers of a small restaurant in Beverly Hills called The Bistro, and together they hold court there. Harvey likes to sit facing the walls-they are all made of mirrors. Thus his eyes, narrow as oriental slits, can see everybody who's there, including himself, and he can smooth his light brown hair without going into Joan's purse for a compact...
Anthony Burgess is a fantasist who has bad dreams. The Clockwork Orange (TIME, Feb. 15) concerned a police state so extreme that a teen-age rapist who talks in half-human gibberish be comes a symbol of heroic rebellion. The Wanting Seed is far less disastrous, but in its penny-plain style, it is a portrait of an anti-utopia that can be ranked with those of Orwell and Huxley...