Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large Author Wells sets up his awful, trapped symbol of mass man without benefit or need of comment. But in the last pages he speaks his mind. Tewler m Wells's opinion, is not only the symbol of a class, but of nations. Everywhere the Tewlers of this world have the same desperate deafness to the voice of reason the same vulnerability to the voices of church, state, school, law, wealth, authority m all its forms. Reason: these voices are themselves the voices of the Tewlers Between outsize Tewlers who lead and run-of-the-counter Tewlers who follow...
...striking design for the post-war car has already come from Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button...
Even so, he has already become the great symbol of the unknown thousands of supposedly conquered Europeans who still resist Adolf Hitler. As he watches from his mountain walls, he stands for every European saboteur who awaits the moment to jam the machine, plant the bomb, or pry up the railroad rail. He has directly inspired others, like Rumanian Patriot Ion Minulescu, who harries the Axis from the Carpathians, and Albanian and Montenegrin guerrillas who worry at Italian flanks on the Adriatic coast...
What an automobile means to the average U.S. family, a U.S.-made sewing machine means to peasant families throughout the world. Besides being a household necessity for mothers with children to clothe and yards of cloth to stitch into voluminous dresses, it is a symbol of standing in the community...
...banks and skyscrapers is at an end, as indeed it has been since Franklin Roosevelt took office. In the decade covered by the exhibition there have been almost no major skyscraper projects except Rockefeller Center. Ferriss once called the skyscraper the "hieroglyph of capitalism, commercialism, and confusion-a symbol of an age in which there is no spirituality." In the '20s New York's cube-like buildings were getting higher & higher. New York streets darker & darker, New York traffic denser & denser, when the city decreed that, buildings, after reaching a moderate height, must "step back" as they rose...