Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Granted that the demonstration was not well-organized and failed to present its case clearly, nevertheless its logic remains valid. The unexpected confrontation with McNamara and the resulting confusion over a "debate" sidetracked the basic rationale for the demonstration: to confront McNamara as a symbol of a war in which people are killed. The question of "mob" action raised by the Administration and McNamara has little relevance in comparison with the scale of violence that this man represents...
...begin with, there is the right and necessity of moral protest. Americans in such strong disagreement with their country's policy have the option of either disassociating themselves from their country or taking every opportunity to register their moral and intellectual outrage. McNamara is an obvious symbol against which this protest can be directed...
...commitment to see that this Administration has been reluctant to confront its critics at any high intellectual level, or even to release some relevant facts. McNamara may not be the man best equipped to represent the current policy in a debate, but, once again, he is its most obvious symbol...
...even if their remarks were "off-the-record." And he thought it important that the honorary associates be questioned publicly about current issues within their purview. Ansara believed these arguments in the abstract; and in McNamara's case they had a special persuasiveness. McNamara engendered hatred as a symbol of the Vietnam war; his stiff personal style alienated people even more. Ansara assured Gordon that most SDS members would insist on some sort of demonstration. Nevertheless, he simultaneously pledged to do everything he could to avoid a disruption of the Secretary's private sessions with students. He was not enthralled...
Each age has come to its own insights into the meaning of Christ's words and deeds; each new interpretation of the Christian message has generally been in the direction of less literal, more symbolic truth. Jesus' first followers, for example, interpreted Christ's promise of a second coming as meaning his immediate return to earth. Only when the expectation faded did the church come to see his words as an eschatological mystery, a symbol of the end of history...