Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard in his native village of Krasic had never worn his cardinal's red robe. But no living prince of the Roman Catholic Church had a better right to it than Alojzije Cardinal Stepinac, 61, Roman Catholic Primate of Yugoslavia. For years, he was a silent but unforgotten symbol of the war between Communism and Christianity, but he did not come quickly to his calling. The seventh of eleven children born to a farm family, he served in the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was twice decorated for valor before being captured by the Italians. After...
Over the years, as Uncle Edwin turns a hale 80 and a hearty 90, Simon watches his proper children being fed the crumbs of poor relations. But the worst is yet to be. As a symbol of that horror which she sees at the core of things. Novelist Compton-Burnett reverts, as she always has, to the crime that affrighted the Greek tragedians-incest. The day comes when Simon's daughter tells him she loves Hamish, whom she does not know to be her halfbrother...
...Zealand holds the rugby crown, symbol of supremacy in the rugger playing world. Perennial challenger for the title is the Union of South Africa's all-white Springbok team. The Springboks journeyed to New Zealand in 1956, cheerfully played-and were soundly beaten-by the All-Blacks, as New Zealand's national team composed of both whites and Maoris is ironically called. This year the All-Blacks are due to play the Springboks in South Africa. When New Zealand's Rugby Union announced that, to spare Maori players embarrassment from apartheid policies, only white members...
...black market. Even after German cigarette makers got back in production, smokers still craved the Virginia blends, as opposed to the Oriental blends favored by domestic manufacturers. But because of the price, only the rich could afford imported U.S. cigarettes, grandly passed them around as a status symbol. The British-American Tobacco Co., which sells American Tobacco's Lucky Strike brand in Europe, was the first to go into local-plant production. But West Germans can look forward to other inexpensive U.S. brands. R. J. Reynolds (Camels), Liggett & Myers (Chesterfields) and P. Lorillard (Kents, Old Golds) are all smoking...
Needless to say, however, the above household items could never propel a picture to such a high place in Hollywood history, and in fact the man who does it all is Jack Palance, who here creates the definitive "fast-gun" symbol which was later to become expanded to such considerable proportions...