Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cannot say the same for the witnesses and their lawyers. They injected into the proceedings enough sound and fury to turn an honest investigation into a mad, futile carnival. These unthinking exhibitionists have crippled the cause they so hotly championed. So costumed Jerry Rubin, an absurd symbol of the entire childish display, waved his cocked hat and bellowed, "I object! I object!" I hope he doesn't mind if his countrymen borrow this cry to voice their opposition to his and his fellows' truly un-American antics...
...nation's problems, watched the situation with growing alarm. A lifelong "easy money" man, Truman recalled his bitter struggle with the Federal Reserve Board to keep interest rates down during the Korean War. Moreover, he believes with a conviction bordering on passion that Government bonds, as the symbol of Washington's good faith, should never be allowed to sell under par-and he saw them plummeting far below par as investors sought higher interest rates elsewhere. When major U.S. banks raised their prime interest rate to 6% three weeks ago, Truman decided...
...matter of much scholarly debate. Many of their religious customs-such as abstention from both beef and pork -appear to have been borrowed from Islam or Hinduism. But in their temples, which nonbelievers are forbidden to enter, the Parsis still worship fire, which was Zoroaster's chosen symbol of divine power. At their marriage feasts, wedded couples ceremoniously sip bull's urine because it allegedly purifies both body and soul...
...Negro civil rights workers, Cicero, Ill. (pop. 70,000), is a symbol of Northern discrimination-a Selma without the Southern drawl. The last time a Negro tried to live in Cicero, in 1951, city police harassed him, then did little to quell three days of rioting as mobs burned his possessions and wrecked his apartment. Some 3,000 National Guardsmen finally restored order but, from that day to this, no Negro has openly sought residence in the town that gave Al Capone haven, a suburb of Chicago that is largely populated by blue-collar workers of East European extraction...
Because "soul" expresses the special experiences of Negroes, the blues have remained distinctly their music, a proud but not intransigent symbol of their separateness. Lately, however, a sizable white audience has awakened to the power and beauty of the Chicago ghetto blues...