Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issue Miss Christy makes the same claim about Greek pocketbooks, "the new status symbol on the Radcliffe campus.... The accessory sported by those who are 'really in.'" The bags are "proof of travels to Greece or Mexico or Rumania," she contends. 'Cliffies buy them in expensive local shops, but not at Jordan Marsh...
When Swedish newspapers complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
...question of who will occupy it and why. The Bundestag is unlikely to leave Bonn for Berlin for fear of bringing cries of "provocation" from Russia. Most likely, the reconstructed Reichstag will stand empty through the years, serving West Germany and West Berlin as a mute symbol of the hope of eventual reunification of the nation...
Nobody is more noisily dissatisfied these days than that symbol of stability-the fortyish housewife with teenage children and a reasonably successful husband. Books are written about her problems, letters columns are filled with her complaints. What does she want? She wants to go back to work, or to take special courses so she can get what she calls "a real...
Adlai Stevenson has meant more to America as a symbol than as a creative thinker or as a policy maker. He once explained the meaning of Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln was not an original thinker, yet it is to him "that people look today as democracy's foremost spokesman and exemplar. The supreme test of a democratic leader is in his democratic faith--and for this Lincoln stands pre-eminent." Although no Lincoln, Stevenson is important as a symbol and as a man. His U.N. speeches show the man in a different role, one which clouds the meanings of the symbol...