Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many, the lowly cafeteria is a symbol of soup-line shabbiness. So what happens when it is spruced up with classy decor, white-jacketed waiters and tasty food? In the case of Mobile-based Morrison Incorporated, the resulting high costs hold profits to a thinly sliced 40? a meal. Naturally, the company has to compensate for that with volume. One of the nation's fastest-growing cafeteria chains, with 57 branches in seven Southeastern states (and six more due to open this year), Morrison's serves up 2,000,000 meals a month, has tripled annual sales over...
...better than the last. When he showed his spring and summer clothes in Rome this winter, he declared them "the best I've ever done" and nobody in attendance would gainsay the king of Rome. Cried Vogue: "He has become the idol of the young, a new symbol of modern luxury...
...style becomes part of the dramatic action of the production. It is a hot house aristocratic style of life and acting; constantly undercut on one side by a rude bourgeois frankness (played with 20th century realism) and on the other by a broad comedy, which is often the symbol and mockery of unclutered peasant bumpkinry...
...climate at Shaw is repressive. The campus policeman, known by students as "Deputy Dawg," is a powerful symbol. Students accuse him of "hunting for trouble." citing his nightly rout of couples from a popular tunnel that runs under a super-highway. A rigidly enforced curfew requires upperclassmen girls to be in the dorm by ten, and they must sign out whenever they leave the campus. A glance at the sign-out book on an ordinary day exposes trips to the laundromat, to the post-office, or to Woolworth...
...emphasis on good conduct appears also to be an effort eliminate vestiges of Samboism in students. A students who is lazy, inefficient, untrustworthy, happy-go-lucky is not just a bad student--he is a disgrace, a symbol of Negro failure...