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Word: symbolized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent, especially our beer," beer has been one of the staples of U.S. life. Revolutionary War soldiers got a daily ration; George Washington had his own small home brewery at Mount Vernon. To the sun-baked fisherman, the lawn-mowing suburbanite, the baseball fan, beer has always been the symbol of inexpensive relaxation. This week, as July ushered in the height of the beer-drinking season, Americans were pouring upwards of 100 million bottles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Baron of Beer | 7/11/1955 | See Source »

...Accepted Symbol. "On a less dramatic level," says Les Temps Modernes, "one liked the personality of Shane, that nostalgic outlaw of a Racine-like modesty, who troubled for a moment the wife of a farmer . . . The search for the everyday, true incident is hard to reconcile with the epic violence of the westerns, and here again there has been a radical change: the superman has been superseded by a 'new type' of cowboy, who hesitates, who suffers and who is afraid." Examples: The Ox-Bow Incident, Gun fighters, The Treasure of Sierra Madre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Le Western | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...tossup between her and a fine horse, the horse. In a priceless homosexual castration fantasy, the father figure of the film shoots off the ear lobes of the young man when he dares to defend himself. The pistol in westerns is by now accepted as a phallic symbol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Le Western | 7/4/1955 | See Source »

...free world to accept the picture of Chou giving pleasant little dinner parties for democratic diplomats in Bandung, or Khrushchev reeling with conviviality in Belgrade - but Molotov's change of pace was almost unbelievable. Twenty years of treachery and invective toward the West had made Molotov a symbol of the fanatic, devious, hate-filled Old Bolshevik. Now, like good Communists everywhere, he was suddenly trying to win friends and influence people by sweetness and light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Vyacheslav Dalevich Karnegiev | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...bellows-chested Sherpa tribesmen who lugged packs for sahibs scrambling up Himalayan peaks. But people were not sure of his nationality, or even how to spell his name. Today, this Nepal-born mountaineer is a sort of Asian Lindbergh, hailed by millions in the East as a heroic symbol of their true capabilities, and worshiped by many as the Lord Buddha reincarnated. He owns a race horse and receives the public at a smart new house on a hillside in Darjeeling, India. For the ghosting of an autobiography he cannot read he commands the services of one of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Lindbergh | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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