Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every Frenchman's breast lurks a passion more potent, if possible, than his love of the franc or good food. Its outward and visible symbol is the bicycle, but the emotions that bicycling inspires in France have little to do with transportation or exercise. For priests, market-bound peasants, bankers who would sooner pedal than be chauffeured, bicycling is a way to dream and drift in dignity, to twirl life like a long-stemmed glass of Alsace wine. "Vive le vélo, un ami de l'homme" proclaims an affectionate Norman toast: "Long live the bike...
...years the dangling stethoscope has been the symbol of the physician. But just how reliable a piece of equipment is it? Cardiologist Dale Groom at the Medical College of South Carolina has long suspected that many a faulty diagnosis comes from faulty equipment. To prove it, he ran a check on the 33 stethoscopes used by his Charleston colleagues at Medical College Hospital, found his suspicions confirmed. Two-thirds of the stethoscopes were defective. The doctors using them would be almost as well off with a rolled-up sheet of paper-which is just what the stethoscope was when first...
Israel's first rocket was labeled the second-Shavit Shtayim, or Comet II. Deputy Defense Minister Shimon Peres explained that this prevented the rocket from becoming known as Shavit Aleph. First letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Aleph is a symbol of the government Mapai Party. "We would be accused of making propaganda for the Mapai," explained Peres. Israel boasted that the rocket was "planned, constructed and fired by Israeli scientists and technicians," claimed that most of the raw materials were local...
...husband again. Aficionados will appreciate a surprising private joke; as the lovers loll in a boathouse, brooding over the sin they are about to commit, an enormous black fish appears in the water below. The adulterers regard it for a moment. Then one of them, mocking psychiatry and symbol-mad film directors, laughs wryly "at Freud's theories," and they get back to their lovemaking...
THAT curling gold serpent on the background of TIME'S cover this week is the symbol of the American Medical Association and of Aesculapius, the god of medicine. It is not to be confused with the more familiar two coiled snakes that the U.S. Army Medical Corps uses, and which the A.M.A. considers a mistake. Two snakes coiled around a winged staff form the caduceus of the god Mercury, who, aside from being the messenger of the gods, is also god of commerce, the deity of thieves and conductor of the dead to the underworld. The A.M.A. prefers...