Word: symbolical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brooding figure of the Great Emancipator in Washington's Lincoln Memorial has become a symbol for a new kind of freedom for those who are confined to wheelchairs. After a long, hard-fought campaign by a number of groups dedicated to easing the lot of the handicapped, ramps have been built that allow the wheelchair-bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what...
...million Americans in wheelchairs, the gleaming white marble monument has finally become, as they call it, accessible. The symbol* designating that accessibility, a white stick figure on a blue background representing a man in a wheelchair, is posted on the memorial and has been appearing on a growing number of buildings around the U.S. Wherever it appears, the symbol means that the structure has been built or remodeled so that ramps (with a maximum grade of 8.3%) are in place at stairs or curbs, doors are wide enough (at least 32 in.), knobs, buttons or drinking fountains are within reach...
...Adopted in 1969 as the International Symbol of Access by the Eleventh World Congress on the Rehabilitation of the Disabled...
...want to get off that phrase [lowering expectations]. Overheated rhetoric ought to be deflated a bit. Humphrey-Hawkins is a symbol, a commitment. Commitments are important. Everybody wants specifics, and when you articulate them, you get clobbered...
...Alexandros Panagoulis--people you can portray as heroic. But these sections of the book are also those where you type of journalism reveals itself for what it is: fiction. Each of the 14 people in Interview with History is introduced so that the reader sees the individual as a symbol of something much bigger. Your technique encourages the reader to forget that you invented any symbolism you see. Then you proceed to back up your perception with "fact" through the interviews. It's all just too neat, everyone you interview fits just too perfectly into your larger structure...