Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could a rogue be so unfeeling as to steal a candelabra from Liberace? The pianist told Massachusetts cops that a thief had swiped the famed symbol-set with 16 small diamonds and worth about $700-from his limo while he was performing in the Boston suburb of Framingham. It was something of a temptation, being mounted on the left rear fender where any passerby could pry it loose. But not all was lost. The rascal didn't get the second candelabra on the other side, so there's still some light amid the darkness...
...Spook Chicks. The overwhelmingly prevalent pattern in interracial dating, TIME correspondents report, is black boy with white girl. To many Negro men, going out with a white girl is a symbol of success and achievement. Says a University of California Negro student: "Black cats consciously play with white chicks. It's a challenge. For him, the white woman is shrouded in mystery. She is revered, you dig?" Adds Mrs. Anita Jones of Seattle's Urban League: "Oh, there's pride in it, all right. Dating Caucasians is part of the Negro's establishment of his identity...
...Look how beautiful she is.'" Other Negro girls are more leary. Huffs a Manhattan Negro career girl: "The 'black is beautiful' idea has affected very few Negro males. They still think that kinky hair and Negro lips are unattractive. A white woman is still a status symbol. It is for my brother. He married...
...that contempt breeds familiarity, and familiarity breeds sales. The recently retired White Knight (for Ajax cleanser) was the most ridiculed horseman since Don Quixote. He galloped so many laps around the plains of suburbia 1,000,000 in five years that after a while, he became a rather endearing symbol of camp. What is more, according to one claim, his magic lance added a not-so-subliminal phallic meaning...
Westbrook: "You're fired." Stuff like that. Lehner: And when the girl goes out of the room, he takes a leather portfolio, looks around, opens it up and starts doodling some very silly, funny little things. And the announcer says: "Introducing a new executive status symbol-Flair. To the casual observer, Flair is a dignified, serious, executive pen. But when you're alone, Flair reveals its true identity as the executive play pen. The greatest doodler in the world. This Christmas give him the executive play pen, Flair...