Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dortmund, Schmidt heaped scorn on Erhard. "One reads his campaign literature," cried Schmidt. "Me, me, me, I, I, I. The psychologists call this overcompensation of one's own complexes." To roars of applause and whistles, he went on, "The man has absolutely no powers of decision. The symbol on Herr Erhard's coat of arms should not be a cigar but a shaking pudding...
...that morality and respect for the law are the world's last hopes of survival in an era of ethical collapse that is leading only to socialism. As he puts it: "There has been a worldwide revolution against constituted authority. A police officer is the living, physical symbol of authority, and so it is against him that this resentment is frequently directed. It is hard for me to believe that our society can continue to violate all the fundamental rules of human conduct and expect to survive...
...play Dutchman, Negro Writer LeRoi Jones pits a decent, unbelligerent young Negro against a dirty-mouthed white girl, symbol of decadence and cruelty, and lets her kill him. In Jones's The Toilet, eight Negroes abuse a white boy and then beat him up. During open-end discussions at Manhattan's Village Vanguard last winter, Jones put an extra racial twist on the death of two white civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. "Those boys were just artifacts−artifacts, man. They weren't real. I won't mourn them. I have...
...dropout with an atrophied IQ and no skills to help him get a job, the young Negro in the deep ghetto is incessantly told by Black Nationalists and civil rights demagogues that "The Man"−white man−is responsible for his savage hopelessness. "The Man" has become a symbol of their despair, and "Get Whitey" has become their battle...
...human imagination, the eagle has long been more a symbol than a bird. It was celebrated by the Egyptians as the bird of the sun, the lion of the sky. It was known to the Greeks as the emissary of Zeus, and blamed in their legends for the death of Aeschylus -an eagle, the story goes, mistook the bald head of the dramatist for a stone and dropped a turtle on it. It is most familiar to Americans as the heraldic symbol on the U.S. Seal of State. But the real-life eagle beggars all symbolic descriptions...