Word: symbolically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, with the fall of the ultimate symbol of Britain's once great empire, there was no bugle, no ceremony, no tears. Workmen simply replaced the sign on the Colonial Office's old headquarters near Whitehall with one reading "Commonwealth Office...
Every folk singer worth his guitar has got to have a motorcycle. It's a symbol of status, or maybe antistatus. Such a symbol comes dear, as it did to promising young Singer Richard Fariña, who died in a cycle accident in April. Folk Hero Bob Dylan, 25, was luckier-but not by much. He was buzzing along on his Triumph 500 near Woodstock, N.Y., when the rear wheel froze, flipping him off and onto the pavement. Dylan was rushed to a doctor and will spend at least two months in bed, recuperating from a neck fracture...
...them far more stringent than the Judiciary Committee's bill-have experienced a noticeable change in housing patterns as a result. All the same, the Administration believes that even the watered-down bill would create an atmosphere unfavorable to discrimination. More important, the law would be a symbol of progress to ghetto Negroes. Already, warned Roy Wilkins, executive director of the N.A.A.C.P., "a large segment of Negro and white Americans is jeering at the legislative approach to civil rights. A failure by the House to take effective action for fair housing will increase skepticism among more sober citizens...
...Practically nobody has even heard of Toomey and Hodge, although they are the two best decathlon men in history. A kind of track meet in miniature, the decathlon is the most searching test of athletic skill and endurance yet devised. But except in Olympic years when it becomes the symbol of the original Greek games, it arouses little passion in the U.S. There won't be another Olympics until 1968; and so in the meantime, Toomey and Hodge have been slogging along, paying their own way to the few track meets in which the decathlon is held, rarely getting...
...year-old sex kitten has lived long enough to acquire. Playgoers can sense the discipline that shapes her performance, the reliable professionalism of the middle years, so that in her deft command of her craft as an actress-comedienne she is an authentic as well as beguilingly lovely symbol of the generation...