Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million people. His weapons were the People's Liberation Army and the youth of the Red Guards, whom he mobilized by closing down the schools. His targets were the party and governmental structures of China, the handiwork of President Liu Shao-chi, who became the all-purpose symbol of everything "revisionist" in China that Mao aimed to destroy...
...longer is horseback riding restricted to traditional horsy enclaves, dude ranches and city bridle paths; it has now massively infiltrated suburbia and even spread to blue-collar areas, where a new status symbol, instead of a second car, can be a stable alongside the garage. In Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone...
...from the sale of a patent for mechanical mannequins. The appearance of these "automanne-quins" raises the question of who is real and who is not-one of those Nabokovian diversions that in later novels are more subtly conceived, often with the impish intention of trapping overanxious symbol hunters...
...contents does not do Wait a Minim justice. What makes its 21/2 hour running-time seem one-tenth as long as the uninhibited zaniness that keeps the performers flying through their material. They do everything and anything. In one sketch, medieval knights running around in cloaks bearing the peace symbol suddenly break into a ludicrous song about a chastity belt. Ten minutes later a thumping South African chant turns into a wild dance accompanied by a myriad of homemade instruments. When they aren't singing, the company takes turns playing whites and blacks shooting each other. (The politics of Wait...
...didn't make any difference in the overall House intramural competition as Winthrop captured its first Straus Trophy--Harvard's symbol of House athletic supremacy--in 34 years...