Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must say that I think you did the Herald an injustice when you described it as dreary. Not that there isn't a dreary paper in this town, but it is the Christian Science Monitor, which is dull, dull, dull-and such a sacred cow, such a status symbol, that though people cannot stand it, they nevertheless call it a great newspaper. It's a terrible bore, really. The same cannot be said of the Herald...
...Angeles area. Claiming that Unruh may have violated a California law, Ziffren took his case to the press. Said he: "I don't like the picture of an armored truck driving up to Democratic headquarters with more than $100,000 in $10 bills. That's not the symbol of the party that many of us who have worked for it for many years had in mind ... If we condone the hiring of 10,000 workers in this election, what's to prevent the hiring of 100,000 in the next election? At what point do you draw...
Engines & Coolies. Chronicling the downfall of the Sand Pebbles, McKenna achieves a rare organic mixture of fast-moving story and far-ranging symbol. Holman proves to be a loner who hates the spit and polish of the Navy and the "game" of putting on a front for the Chinese. He tries to secede from the ship by taking refuge in caring for the one thing he knows and loves-engines. But when he begins to fix the Sand Pebble's decrepit coal-burning monstrosity-and, worse, agonizingly tries to teach a Chinese coolie how steam drives the pistons...
Balloting for class marshal elections will be held at lunch and dinner today in each House. Each senior must vote in his own House. Only those people may vote whose name appears in the current Directory of Officers and Students with the symbol "C 63" appended...
...more of their sales abroad, and their trademarks are as recognizable abroad as at home. The armies of American executives who became global commuters in 1962 helped to increase the volume of international air travel by 20%. From Scotland to Singapore, the button-down collar was as familiar a symbol of the footloose businessman as the carpetbag in the Reconstruction South. To welcome the new invaders, the Banco di Roma issued a fat catalogue of investment opportunities in English. Berlitz, which had only 300 U.S. executives studying on company time in its language schools in 1952, had 3,000 last...