Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came fully awake to the fact that its normal best in the cold war is no longer good enough. The U.S. satellite test vehicle, reaching for the sky and falling flat on its pad, was a symbol of the old standards: a hurry-up effort to answer moons with a moon, klaxons of witless pressagentry and, after the flop, yelps of anguish (cried Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson: "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's two satellites?"). Yet even if Vanguard had been successful in its first...
...Another symbol was the President of the U.S. in his courageous struggle, after three major illnesses, to climb not merely back to normalcy but to the surpassing heights required by the new day. Yet the magic seemed gone from the old reassurances, the rallying of forces, the bipartisan gathering of legislative leaders, the hurry-up new plans for NATO. These may once have been answers; now they were only parts of answers...
THERE are no national problems which the people, in the exercise of their considered judgment and under forthright and competent leadership, cannot master in good time. In this respect the prestige and inspiration of a President who remains a symbol of hope to millions can serve as a fortifying influence...
...Hidden Persuaders is sensationalistic. It is written to shock and, for the most part, succeeds, as is indicated by the furor raised since its publication. The book is described thus: "What makes us buy, believe, and even vote the way we do. An introduction to the New World of Symbol Manipulation and Motivational Research...
...oldtime Japan," though the shapes are his own invention. Says he: "I find myself in nature and nature in myself. There are old pine trees in the picture (center). The blue and brown areas (upper left) are like a rainbow, a cloud, rain or fog-any symbol you pick-but with a feeling of sky, air and space." ¶ Red and Black, by Clyfford Still. This is the Albright's prime acquisition to date, because merely to own a Still is a rarity. Painter Still is so cantankerous that he flatly refuses to sell his work to any collector...