Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...love for the pinto in part determined his decision to attend Washington's Georgetown University, just a ten-minute walk from the park stables. As a freshman, he expatiated on an assigned English essay subject: "Status Symbols." "Success is the true status symbol," he wrote. To Guy, Navajo was the highest symbol, and he owned...
...have turned the auto into a virility symbol, and we can make the house into something equally pleasing." So says Industrial Designer William Theodore Snaith, 59, who gets paid for thinking up such things-in this case, $200,000 by 28 manufacturers whose fortunes depend heavily on housing. Snaith decided that one thing ailing the invalid housing industry is that today's houses are built to appeal to women (with emphasis on bathrooms and bedrooms) instead of men (who like foyers and dining rooms). He regards kitchens as neutral territory, half favored by men, half resented by women (because...
...literature nowadays, it is fashionable to joke raucously about death or use it as an existential symbol rather than write quietly and seriously about it. An Antique Man is an old-fashioned book. In this seemingly autobiographical first novel, the author solemnly chronicles the death of a nice man, cut down by cancer in his middle 50s. Unfortunately, the work falls considerably short of A Death in the Family, James Agee's classic in this genre...
...business with the West; it will still be meeting its high transportation costs and overhead with some $2 billion in subsidies from the federal government in Bonn. But Berlin's bridge to the East is less important for the money flowing back over it than as a symbol of the city's effort to re-establish itself as Western Europe's major economic crossroads on the route to Moscow and Eastern Europe...
...synthetic, quartz-like crushed "stone"-actually a form of crystallized glass-to do the job. Seeing other possibilities, he has sold the stone as brewery and municipal water filters, made it into bricks to build 50 gleaming white villas around Denmark, in hopes of promoting them as a status symbol...