Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Savannah was built by the U.S. as a floating symbol of the peaceful application of atomic energy. She was also designed to show that nuclear-powered ships are safe, and to promote their acceptance in ports around the world. Now the Administration says that she has accomplished both her good will and scientific missions. Neither has come cheap. Indeed, experience with Savannah made it painfully clear that income from cargo can pay but a fraction of operating costs of nuclear vessels, which are boosted by extraordinary safety requirements and specialized crew training...
...choreography, brilliantly danced by New York City Ballet Stars Melissa Hayden and Jacques D'Amboise. With the help of Jack G. O'Brien's updated English libretto, the buffoonery as well as the bite struck a contemporary nerve: the god Mercury was decked out like the symbol of the telephone company, and Public Opinion drew a loud, if edgy, laugh with her reassurance that she was enforcing marital fidelity only onstage, not in the audience...
...outer space. His constructions are essentially intended as windows looking out of the world to a celestial view beyond. His Spheremusic #2, currently on display at New York's Whitney Museum, combines shining globes in concentric circles, like a baby planetarium. "The ball," he explains, "is the symbol of the infinite, of geometry, of an infinite continuum...
...hotel's great glory used to be its opulent indoor patio, a spacious central courtyard roofed over with glass and studded with palm trees and fountains that was the very symbol of la belle epoque. In the U.S., none rivaled the "Grand Central Court" of San Francisco's Palace Hotel, tiled in marble, lit by gas and roofed with crystal. But as modern cost-efficiency techniques have moved into hotelkeeping, much of the drama and elegance has moved out. Since space is the greatest architectural luxury of all, most new hotel lobbies are mean and cramped-areas designed...
...apparently remains, haunted by totemistic objects. One is the mirror, symbol of self-knowledge, in which Lowell has seen himself as a newt and a turtle. The other is the razor, symbol of the knowledge of life that comes through the contemplation of death. The puritan-lapsed-Catholic may have arrived at the true existentialist position-confronting the possibility of suicide man learns the nature and possibilities of his life...