Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Horrible Specter. Dr. Richard I. Evans, a University of Houston social psychologist, suggests that not owning a television set has become "a reverse status symbol. What these people are actually engaging in is a form of snobbery." Chaytor Mason, a psychologist at the University of Southern California, agrees and adds a few additional non-TV types to the list: "the high-button-shoes, who have refused to change over from radio," the "active personalities like Harriet Housewife, who have too much to do or can't sit still," and the across-the-board mavericks, who just have...
...developing nations throughout the world, domestic car production is a foremost symbol of industrial coming-of-age. As a result, the list of auto-producing countries is lengthening, even if many of them make cars only under license with the major manufacturers in other nations. Such arrangements vary widely, from mere final assembly of a vehicle to the production of most parts locally. Manufacturers' labels are often misleading. The Nasr (Victory) sedans of the U.A.R., for example, are in fact Fiats assembled in Cairo. Some countries-for one, Red China, which makes passenger cars named Red Flag and Phoenix...
...black man the Statue of Liberty is nothing but a bitch, a symbol of broken promises...
...practically every capital in the world, the colonels have managed to win grudging diplomatic recognition from the major powers as the effective, if unloved masters of Greece. Last week Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos finally gained the concession that he and his fellow junta colleagues regarded as the ultimate symbol of acceptance. It was the resumption by the U.S. of heavy-arms shipments to Greece...
American literature has long been the scene of wordy battles between scholars and critics. The scholars are basically interested in establishing accurate texts, the critics in plumbing nuances of characterization, plot and symbol. The critics sometimes decry the scholars as pedants with bibliomania, while the scholars dismiss the critics as dilettantes with an unprofessional lack of interest in discovering what an author really wrote. In a pair of scathing articles for the New York Review of Books, Critic Edmund Wilson recently added his eminent voice to the quarrel. He suggested that a number of leading literary experts are now engaged...