Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...star of a Republican gathering in Hastings, Neb., Illinois' junior Senator, Charles Percy, made the expectable gibes at Bobby Kennedy and the familiar pleas for party unity. Though he is a liberal on most issues, and at 47 a symbol of the G.O.P.'s rising generation, Percy heaped praise on Nebraska's venerable conservative Senators, Carl Curtis and Roman Hruska-with whom he had just parted company over ratification of the Soviet consular treaty. "I've learned a lot by listening to them," professed Percy. "Even when we don't vote together, we walk...
...approach is brutal, so is the problem. Across the nation, teen-age addiction is soaring, and it is no longer confined to the slums. For in pills and pot and LSD today's teen-agers are finding not only an avenue of escape but a cool symbol of rebellion...
...naming of a psychiatrist to head a medical school is unusual but not un precedented.-Dr. Redlich himself sees it as a symbol of improved status for his specialty. "A generation ago," he said, "I'm sure Yale wouldn't have considered a psychiatrist for dean. But now we are taken much more seriously...
...businessmen, bankers and most politicians on both sides of the Atlantic are concerned, that final version had better be correct. In 16 years on the job, Martin has grown to be a symbol of monetary integrity; he is inflation's most powerful Washington foe. His departure not only could shake the business confidence that Johnson covets for his Administration, but it might undermine faith in the dollar abroad-particularly among Europeans who can act on their misgivings by swapping dollars for U.S. gold. A high Canadian finance official echoed a common sentiment when he warned: "If Johnson doesn...
...savage sisterhood of judges -those" of her peers who have learned the power of group opinion and the perils of deviating from its cast-iron conventions. Whenever camp life becomes unbearable, she loses herself during a stalk and pretends that she is accompanied by a friendly unicorn, the traditional symbol of virginity. By the end of camp, she has found and kept a friend, but she still has need of her imaginary pal. "Just remember," she says to a teacher who intrudes on her illusions, "I am a virgin, the right kind of virgin, and in the right ways. There...