Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of what the seaboards have gained, the vast land area in between has lost−in population and power, in industry, and even in intellect. Michigan, long the symbol of American industrial go-getiveness, last year got only 2.7% of the defense prime contracts (against 9.5% in 1951-53)-Illinois got 2%. The seaboard centers have been a magnet in a selective sense−the populations flocking to California are not merely the sun-seeking oldsters, and certainly not the Okies of the 1930s, but often the youngest and brightest, most proficient and promising, most ambitious and adventurous...
...landscape in the background is strangely sentimental for a realist like Hals; critics believe that he was using some fashionable symbology. A garden was the traditional home of Venus; the peacocks may refer to Juno, the protectress of marriage, and the ivy behind the young woman could be the symbol of fidelity...
Plots v. Things. At first glance it is hard to see what all the fuss is about. The man who has done most to provoke it is Alain Robbe-Grillet. Today's novel, he insists, must not concern itself with plot, character, symbol, metaphor or message. Instead, it must deal with things-i.e., objects-and Robbe-Grillet has brought out four books that pretend to do just that. Grouped more or less willingly around him are about a dozen writers, of whom the most celebrated are Nathalie Sarraute (Portrait of a Man Unknown) and Michel Butor (A Change...
...Channel is no longer a moat, it is more than a memory. In the missile age, as in the Middle Ages, it is still the demarcation line of British sovereignty, the symbol of differences in law and language, attitudes and institutions that have historically separated Englishmen from Europeans-and mingled their blood on countless European battlefields. "The English," it is said, "are always willing to die for foreigners-but not to live with them...
...tons to 422,000 tons last year. Right in the U.S.'s backyard, a German consortium recently walked off with the $10.8 million contract to supply steel for the mile-long Balboa Bridge in Panama. Since every emerging nation wants its own steel mill as a status symbol, the competition for foreign markets is bound to get increasingly bitter. The Europeans, and the burgeoning Japanese steelmakers, can be expected to underbid their higher-cost U.S. rivals more and more...