Word: symbolism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nobody expected very much from the film, but to an America just emerging from the Depression the story of the Hardy family was a symbol of what was best in the country. MGM quickly scheduled sequels, and in 1939 and 1940 Mickey was the box office king, bigger than Gable or Tracy. He made $5,000 a week -in real dollars. His teen-age escapades became staples of the gossip columns, and the studio hired a male duenna to keep him in line. That was not easy, and when he was 21, Mickey took his first wife, an unknown actress...
...Nukes are a symbol of economic exploitation," Boudreau says. She adds that by opposing the companies that support nukes "we're striking right at the heart of the American economic system." Harvard's Top Ten Nuclear Related Investments Exxon Corporation $35,442,448 Standard Oil Co. of California $20,912,364 Mobil Corporation $18,360,622 Atlantic Richfield $17,465,122 Gulf Oil $15,969,160 General Electric Company $15,673,735 Getty Oil $11,765,924 Raytheon $9,585,634 Phillips Petroleum $8,996,703 Florida Power and Light $7,169,390 According to '78-'79 Financial Report
...dumping Barre will not be easy. Many foreign officials and businessmen view Barre as a symbol of the rigor and discipline France needs. Bankers fear that Barre's departure would diminish confidence in the French economy, frighten capital investors and cause the franc (which has held steady against the West German mark for more than a year) to tumble. In a last-ditch defense of his policies, Barre sounded an emphatic warning against false expectations. "You can replace me, but don't have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members...
This assault on mechanical modernism--one of Barth's correspondents describes "those symbol-fraught Swiss watches and Schwarzwald cuckoo clocks of Modernism"--hardly fits a novel that follows a schematic masterplan. You see, if you take the seven letters of the title-word "letters," superimpose them on a seven-month calendar using a quaint motto, so that the letters of the motto form the letters of "letters," then each letter of the motto will fall neatly onto a date in the calendar, one for each of the letters in the book...
...student economics. Edelhart talks money without a trace of the bland B.S. that he dribbles in the later sections on social life. Some of his dorm decorating hints prove useful, too, (where to get free posters), for instance, though others are absurd, like decking your door with a "personal symbol...