Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most Americans, the U.S. Capitol is at once symbol, museum, and house of government-the Parthenon of the American Republic. To engineers, it is a monumental nightmare...
...result of such single-minded devotion to protest, Bettina has acquired an effective political following of campus left-wingers and others who see her as a symbol of rebellion. Last week their votes were enough to win her a place on the student-faculty rules advisory committee that Berkeley's new chancellor, Roger W. Heyns, counts on to be a key force in his effort to stabilize the school. Under the complicated Cambridge Preferential Voting System, Bettina topped the list of nine contestants for the three undergraduate seats on the committee-in an election that drew only...
Public Flogging. His outspoken defiance turned Sir Humphrey, 63, a gaunt and rangy Englishman who settled in Rhodesia 37 years ago, into the foremost symbol of opposition to the Smith regime. Staying with him in Government House was Rhodesia's Chief Justice Sir Hugh Beadle. Outside, more than 3,000 Rhodesians, white and black alike, stood in line last week to sign his guest book...
...latest such case involves Thomas R. Gilligan, the New York City police lieutenant who was off duty when he shot and killed a 15-year-old Negro in 1964, thus triggering six nights of rioting in Harlem and Brooklyn. Gilligan became the symbol of Negro demands that New York disarm off-duty cops and set up a civilian review board to curb police "brutality." Civil rights groups plastered Harlem with his picture under the heading WANTED FOR MURDER...
...CRIMSON played its first game with a ragtail band of Yalies way back in 1874, exactly one year before the initial varsity contest. Inflamed by their ignominious 23-2 defeat, the men from Eli banded together the very next year to form the Yale newspaper, hoping the symbol of formal organization would help lure more agile atheletes to their ranks...