Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover portrait of Bennett Cerf, his head below a truncated M, gives him somewhat the appearance of a horned owl, a symbol of wisdom not inappropriate, though Mr. Cerf is a mite less taciturn...
...black raincoat. Tomorrow all the French girls will want to look like her, to sing her song." Bruno Coquatrix, director of Paris' most coveted show case, the Olympia Music Hall (where Françoise signed on for three weeks and stayed for eight), sees her as "a symbol of the mystery of youth, the instinct of the devil." Others call her "the Françoise Sagan of French singing," even though the song lyrics that she writes are hardly literary. "I never erase or start over," she says. They are mostly banal ballads...
...secret meeting at White Sulphur Springs to look over Michigan's George Romney, currently the front runner for the nomination. Gathering in the suite of Colorado's John Love, they discussed ways to corral and keep delegates for Romney-as at least a pre-convention symbol of G.O.P. moderation if not necessarily as the moderates' most-wanted candidate. The Governors' blunt advice to Romney, whom they consider too impressed by polls and favorable publicity: he can win the nomination only by working hard from the precinct level up, by getting some first-rate political tacticians...
...stood over and against nature. The idea of God as a transcendental presence implies to Dewart that God is to be envisioned as a reality found in and through nature, as the shaping force of history. And in so far as the word "God" has become a symbol of an outdated supernatural idol, Dewart proposes that the church might well resign itself to silence as to the name of the reality-beyond-being it serves and preaches...
...drumlike walls are sheathed in adobe-colored concrete trimmed with a red brick cornice; narrow porticos add a Federal touch; bronze doors, capped with Greek pediments, are set in four entrances that project to form, in an air view, the Zia Indian tribe's radiating symbol...