Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...green and pleasant campus, a perennially powerful football team, and very pretty coeds, two of whom won the Miss America contest in successive years, 1958 and 1959. But it is a cheerfully unintellectual institution with nothing special to offer the mind of an earnest man of 29. As a symbol of the Negroes' struggle for justice, Meredith's cause was worth all the trouble it stirred up, but as an individual's aspiration for intellectual fulfillment, it was hardly persuasive...
...obvious result is a feeling among the smart set that mink has become ordinary. Says one fashion leader: "It's gotten to be nothing more than a seedy status symbol." Sniffs another: "Everybody in kingdom come has one. I never saw so many old sides and ears in my life. Of course, it is becoming to just everybody -even those little old poodles with the jeweled mink collars...
...years now, Aaron Bohrod has been biding his time, waiting for the day when the dazzle of abstract expressionism will die away and large numbers of people will appreciate his resolutely realistic paintings of symbol-laden still life. His wait may be ending. The pendulum of public taste started to swing back toward the figure, and words like "realism." "craftsman ship" and "beauty" are appearing again in art criticism. A show of what Bohrod has been doing while he waited opened last week in Chicago, and 20 of the still lifes on view-most no bigger than a phone book...
...mangrove trunks are taken to carvers who shape them into fantastic "ancestor poles." Each pole generally has two male figures, one standing on the other's head. The buttress root serves the upper figure as a gigantic, openwork phallic symbol. In a final climactic ceremony, the ancestor poles are set up near the men's house, and the warriors stage a fierce mock battle followed by a wild dance in which the women attack...
...English and the Scots." Bringing that day ever closer is a new class of European business leaders, who, with aggressiveness and vision, are shaping a new Europe, where national tastes and economic expectations are increasingly giving way to a single European pattern. They have made Mercedes the new status symbol in Italy, cheap Italian refrigerators the rage among French housewives, and Dutch TV sets a hot seller in West Germany...