Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover story, written by Associate Editor Jesse Birnbaum, examines the state of Alabama and its Governor, George C. Wallace. For the background of his cover painting, Artist Boris Chaliapin chose the broken window of Birmingham's bombed-out 16th Street Baptist Church as a particularly striking symbol of the depth and bitterness of the struggle...
...When he talks like that, Wallace sounds like an ordinary Alabama redneck. But he is no such thing-and the more's the pity, since he has become an international symbol of the demagogic segregationist in the Southern region of the U.S. Wallace is in fact a smart, capable lawyer who has in many ways been a first-rate Governor. Since he took office last January, he has pushed through sizable raises in teachers' salaries, begun a big school-construction program, successfully sponsored a $100 million bond issue for roads, cut his own executive department budget by better...
...superspectacular sexual fantasies, Kubly is hard to beat. He presents an underwater coupling, a 30-ft.-high phallic symbol, a necrophilic stripper, a mass rape of a midget. It's almost enough to bring heterosexuality into disrepute...
...Charlayne Hunter became the first Negro girl ever to enter the University of Georgia. Last June, she became the first Negro girl to graduate. Yet Charlayne always insisted that she should not be considered a symbol of the civil rights struggle or even a national representative of her race. "I'm not representing anybody," she once said. "I'm not an ideal girl or the perfect student." Though she was sometimes called upon to speak before civil rights groups, she felt "like a hypocrite ... all that We Shall Overcome business. I believe in it, sure. But there...
...Charlayne remained a symbol despite her wishes. And it was that fact that gave special significance to the announcement last week of her marriage to a white fellow student at the University of Georgia...