Word: emblems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Poseidon "hated to be less important than his younger brother (Zeus), and always went about scowling. When he felt even crosser than usual, he would drive away in his chariot to a palace under the waves, near the island of Euboea, and there let his rage cool. As his emblem Poseidon chose the horse, an animal which he pretended to have created. Large waves are still called 'white horses' because of this...
...majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided to branch out. Two of the sculptors asked to do works for the park: the late Sir Jacob Epstein...
...showcase (with plenty of window dressing) for Communism in Asia. Pyongyang (pop. 800,000) has a Stalin Allee just like East Berlin's, a vast opera house and a vaster sports stadium. Forests of swinging cranes constantly add to the number of workers' apartment houses. The national emblem is a flying horse that decorates everything from matchboxes to tractors: the horse is supposed to be charging toward socialism at 300 miles a day. Premier Kim II Sung's* proclaimed ambition is to "reach and pass Japan's per capita production in ten years...
From high in the dome of the General Assembly Building, bracelets of light beamed down upon the people below. From rows of windowed rooms in the fluted concave walls peered the camera eyes of the world. Against a starkly simple backdrop of the leaf-rimmed United Nations emblem, the Secretary-General of the U.N. and the newly elected Assembly President, Ireland's Frederick H. Boland, sat like somber judges at a high marbled desk, while before them, dwarfed by the cathedral-like immensity of the hall and by their own sense of impending history, the delegations of 96 nations...
...hope of winning the nomination in 1960 had faded away, Rockefeller leaped onstage again with a 2,700-word statement accusing Nixon of failing to speak out on national issues. The nation and the party, said Rockefeller, cannot march "to meet the future with a banner aloft whose only emblem is a question mark." Many a cynic inferred that Rockefeller, eying the 1964 presidential nomination, wanted Nixon to lose in 1960. and was deliberately trying to undercut him. But Nixon took a soft-answer tone, defended Rockefeller's right to voice his disagreements with the Ad ministration, issued a soothing...