Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pieces, including some masterpieces: a delicately incised, ocher-painted Bobo mask from the Upper Volta, with its fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised in flowing parallel lines and then covered with white clay, the lips transformed into a jutting prism with a star-shaped hole in it-the very embodiment, one might suppose, of authoritative and ordered eloquence. Combined with...
Camara has become a symbol of Catholic opposition to military dictatorship in Brazil and throughout Latin America...
...antithesis of Arkansas' self-image. The state's symbol is a raging razorback, and J. William Fulbright is an owl in gabardine. Though they did not profess to understand him very well or to endorse many of his views, the voters of Arkansas had for 30 years been sending Bill Fulbright to Washington. Like fond, if slightly baffled parents, they took pride in the national and global attention he won as the Senate's foremost authority on foreign affairs...
When Helmut Schmidt moved into the Chancellor's office in Bonn's Palais Schaumburg, among the handful of photographs he placed next to his desk was an autographed portrait of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. It was not a public relations gesture but rather a symbol of their warm relationship, built up over years of monetary crises and European Economic Community negotiations. As Finance Ministers for their respective governments, they developed not only a solid respect for each other's ability to carry out official duties, but also a personal friendship. Speaking to each other...
...Weeeoooo!" For competitors of the giant A. & P. food chain, that cry has become as unwelcome as a Comanche war whoop in the Old West. A contraction of the slogan "Where Economy Originates," it has become a symbol of A. & P.'s relentless drive since 1972 to lure back disaffected customers and boost sales by paring prices. In the process the company has lost millions and left many experts wondering if the campaign was an act of corporate suicide. A. & P.'s rivals-Kroger, Grand Union, Bohack and most of the rest-suffered bloodbaths trying to keep their...