Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...samovar-table book on the subject (with 50 color plates) at $11 a copy. Literaturnaya Gazeta complained that some citizens purchased icons simply to "create an illusion of eccentricity of thinking or way of life"-in other words, to express their individuality. The images remain a sufficiently powerful symbol of religion and the old regime that many collectors feel compelled to keep them in the back rooms of their apartments...
Survival. The centrists will get the first opportunity to test their strength when the Democratic National Committee meets in December. A movement is afoot to topple the most visible symbol of McGovernism, Jean Westwood. The leading plotters are George Meany, eager to help reshape the party whose candidate he disdained; his chief political lieutenant, Al Barkan, director of Big Labor's Committee on Political Education (COPE); and Scoop Jackson, one of the most vehement of McGovern's preconvention rivals. They are even supported by some McGovern followers, who describe Westwood as a "scheming nonentity." Potential replacements include Robert...
...That he attract me physically." What about intellect and all that? "It is difficult for me to get interested in subsidiary qualities." Tenderness? "Tenderness is a concentration of all the habits and all the monotonies, to be avoided with care." After describing herself as "the most important sex symbol of all time," Brigitte observed: "Time will destroy me one day, as it destroys everything. But no one else will ever be Bardot. I am the only Bardot, and my species is unique...
...humiliation of George McGovern at the polls November 7 1972 was one of the greatest tragedies in American history the Senator was not a vain man. He always spoke of himself as a symbol of respect for human life throughout the world and justice in America. He "consistently saw himself as subordinate to the great cause for which he tought...
...jart, Nijinsky is a cast of characters all by himself-artist, simpleton, genius, child of nature and clown of God. Nijinsky also went mad in his last years and thought he was Jesus. Drawing on that, Béjart goes on to pose Nijinsky as a symbol of Man. On that allegorical level, the ballet is a paean to love as the true expression of God. Nijinsky stands for all the simple, warm people who need to love and be loved...