Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charges very seriously until last January, when Der Stern, West Germany's largest weekly magazine, published the testimony of a U.S. handwriting specialist that the signature was indeed Lübke's. The country's restless students seized on the white-haired old man as a symbol of all that they find wrong with West Germany. University professors called on him to explain, and Der Stern's Editor in Chief Henri Nannen hounded him to resign. The irony was that Nannen himself was accused of having been a strong follower of Hitler during the Nazi period...
...that end, the action is clotted with well-photographed local color-teeming bazaars, sinful side streets, tourist-trap luxury. Unfortunately, though, no amount of lively scenery can make up for the scenario, and on-camera at least, the nubile Miss Mills is not much more plausible as a sex symbol than her unfortunate aunt...
...because of urgent classes--the radical of the sixties is serious--dropped by just to turn in their bursar's cards; so just who actually blocked passage is hard to know to this day. By dinner time the students relented, deciding that the Dow Chemical man was but a symbol and that they had no right to infringe on one man's civil liberty, and they...
...suit the venturesome male mood, mod boutiques are proliferating in department stores, from Manhattan's Bonwit Teller and Chicago's Marshall Field to Sakowitz in Houston and Bullock's in Los Angeles. Current symbol of the freer male attitude is the turtleneck pullover now being worn by just about everybody from Lyndon Johnson, who fancies the comfort of turtlenecks for travel aboard Air Force One, to the Duke of Windsor, who slips into one for small, informal dinner parties. To go with tuxedos for evening, turtlenecks are becoming fancier, now come in silk or piqué, with...
...design of waistcoats ("the historical monuments of our age," a Louis XVI courtier called them) to the conduct of diplomacy. In his survey, the palace at Versailles and the royalty that lived there soon come to represent elegance proliferating unproductively upon itself. The palace and its people become a symbol of style divorced from reality, in which monarchy turned into a kind of theatrical corruption...