Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magazine's writing and photography is not in the same league with Playboy's; although Gallery's nudes are pretty and provocative, their charms are marred by poor printing. Among the few discernible differences in layout is Gallery's use of a symbol showing a lion inside a heart (lionhearted, get it?) in place of Playboy's bunny trademark...
...much as anyone in Congress. Father Robert F. Drinan has become a symbol of those rare successes of the new politics...
Hitler found a second way of freeing himself from these tendencies: he attributed them, along with everything else that he hated and feared, to the Jews. The Jew became a symbol of sex, disease, his perversion-and even the tormenting guilt that perversion caused him. Conscience, he ranted, was "dirty and degrading," "a Jewish invention," and "a blemish like circumcision." For Hitler, Langer wrote, getting rid of Jews means getting rid of his own unconscious inner difficulties...
Like veterans of World War II, some enthusiasts advertise their discharge from the reproductive ranks by proudly wearing special vasectomy pins in their lapels. The pins consist of a circle with an arrow pointing up and away, the universal symbol for the male; the circle, like the vas, is severed...
...neither politicians nor preservatives can guarantee shelf life forever. Those who see the hot dog as an American symbol may be discomfited to learn that its very ethos is vanishing. Once, for example, franks were the staple of daytime World Series games. But this year, all weekday Series games will be played at night. Who wants a hot dog after dinner...