Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speaking the Truth." Four Alabama cities-Tuskegee, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville-were scheduled to start token public school integration. Even Birmingham, long a national symbol of diehard segregationist sentiment, now seemed resigned. "Few of us are happy," wrote the Birmingham Post-Herald, "but we trust that the people of Alabama will face up to their court-ordered responsibilities with a good grace and without violence." Said the Birmingham News: "Our school officials have looked at the problem from every angle. They are speaking the truth: there's nothing to do but keep schools open and do what the courts...
...last May's African "summit conference" in Addis Ababa, South Africa's neighbors called for an economic boycott, to include the banning of South African aircraft from airports and airspace. By last week an air curtain had closed African skies to South African Airways, whose proud symbol is a winged springbok, forcing its planes into a tortuous detour...
Buck teeth, a flat nose, eyes like two razor slits, mousy ears and a fuzzy, black Jerry Lewis haircut. That is Japan's 28-year-old Yujiro Ishihara, the adored symbol of Japanese youth, and easily the most popular movie star in the nation that produces more movies than any other country in the world...
...infancy, when Washington, D.C., was a muddy village with a few thousand inhabitants, the White House has, through the changing decades, served its practical functions as residence and office for the President. What was neglected was the ideal: the White House as a monument, as a symbol of the nation's continuity under all administrations...
BILLY AL BENGSTON, 29, an ardent affluent-society motorcyclist (he owns four), goes in for concentric emblems, usually centered on a symbol such as a sergeant's stripes. Bengston sometimes uses an auto-body painter's spray gun to lay on glossy hot-rodder colors. "I use a lot of the concepts used in motorcycles," he says. "It's a kind of companionship I can understand...