Word: bannered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope. It takes no Swiftian eye to be astonished by what Americans are doing with ? and to ? the national banner...
...pride when Neil Armstrong planted his vertebrate flag on the airless moon. But some Americans could also sympathize with the emotion that moved a student at Kent State to rip down a flag after the shootings. It is as if two cultures, both of them oddly brandishing the same banner, were arrayed in some 18th century battle painting, the young whirling in defiant rock carmagnole against the panoplied Silent Majority...
...total contradiction) we are also relieved that we are not their age. They have much more freedom than we had, but they also have much more pressure put upon them. Unlike us, they feel the hatred of the old, and they know that they must stand together under the banner of youth. At the same time, their frantic independence often hides a group conformity more deadening than anything we could have conceived in the conforming '50s. Being young in the '70s is excruciatingly more difficult than...
...second of an elegant, repentant, white-haired Louis XVI, praying before the guillotine. I also remembered the "World" section of the Sun Diego Union-Evening Tribune from one Sunday in 1957, when I was eight. On the front page was a color map of the world and a banner headline in big red letters that read "We Will Bury You!" I was so frightened that I hid the paper under the sofa and ran into my little brother's room with the comics...
...Tuesday, March 12, after 95 people had applied for the job and 26 had been interviewed, the CRIMSON ran a front-page banner proclaiming that Yovicsin was the winner. The prize was a football team which had won two games the year before, and three games the year before that at a college where losing had become a tradition ever since the departure of Robert Fisher...