Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spotted here and there were improvised tables on sawhorses, manned by enthusiastic undergraduates and burdened with pamphlets and revolutionary literature. Students, many with the red strike symbol of a clenched fist silk-screened on their shirts, stood around in groups, arguing the issues, advancing theories as to the outcome. The trampled turf of the yard was littered with many of the 750,000 broadsides mimeographed by S.D.S. As one cynical grad student put it, "Getting the grass to grow again is more important than any of their demands...
...Luckman had recently brought his own firm, Charles Luckman Associates, into Ablon's realm as a part of Ogden Development Corp. By coincidence, that deal had been struck over a two-hour lunch at "21". Ablon, who is also a regular patron, quickly agreed that safeguarding such a symbol of opulence would be good business for Ogden...
...students committed their own particular crime of willful action was that everyone knew what it meant right away. Without any hesitation, everyone knew that these students "had seized a Harvard administration building in another in a series of campus disorders." The action had no purity, then, it was a symbol that everyone recognized. It was all a script that everyone knew because they had read it in the New York Times, and the administration knew it had two alternatives...
...even there, delay and confusion continue. "Elephant lines" of as many as 25 planes often wait on runways to take off. A jet may circle for literally hours-hoping for clearance to land. In short, air travel, the great success symbol of 20th century man's conquest of space and time, is on the verge of becoming-like railways, highways, traffic and smog, a fit subject for bad jokes by stand-up comics. (Sample: "There really were three Wright brothers, but one is still stacked up over O'Hare...
...strike fashions, Krackerjacks (another store) has begun selling red armbands at 25c apiece. Red armbands started as symbol of support for SDS's position last Friday. Aside from their left-associated color, they have that frayed appearance that most revolutionaries usually think of themselves as having. Probably derived from tying a string around your finger to remember something, they are most important for the sense of participation they give the people who wear them. And the importance of feeling participation can't be overrated in something like a strike...