Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Status Symbol. To a man. European steelmakers deny any ambition to invade the U.S. market in greater strength. All their expansion, they insist, is intended to meet local demand. Even so. they will still be competition for U.S. mills. More and more. European companies are concentrating on increasing their output of high-quality steel for specialized uses...
...magazines in average "yesterday" reading among managers of the top 500 industrial companies, which account for 57% of all sales in their fields. All of this does not lead us to say that to get ahead you should have TIME sticking out of your coat pocket as a status symbol: in fact, that word exposure means that we are really being read. This latest study fits in with the findings of a number of other surveys that show that-in just about any group-as the level of education, responsibility and income goes up, so does the readership of TIME...
...survey of East Berlin opinion showed that 80% were convinced by this show of force that East Germany would be able to dictate the future of West Berlin on its own terms. Many in the West feared the same. Ten months later, the Wall has become a 25-mile symbol of Ulbricht's weakness and the most powerful rallying point for East German resistance to his regime...
...certain will be restored when Franco goes. Until that happens, he can only wait restlessly in self-imposed exile at Estoril, Portugal's glittering resort, or take the handsome yacht Saltillo for endless cruises in the Mediterranean-an embodiment of his country's impatience, and a symbol of the Spanish past that is desperately trying to move into modern Europe...
...World graces and cultural refinement that made the book's Humbert seem more of a sexual gourmet than a sexual monster. In the book, it was Humbert who appeared romantically naive when Lolita quite casually and ironically seduced him. As Nabokov created her, Lolita was as completely a symbol of innate depravity as Melville's Billy Budd was a symbol of innate innocence. But in the movie, she seems to fall into Humbert's voracious clutches to avoid going to an orphanage after her mother is killed by a car. This destroys the underlying theme...