Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Symbol of Unity. As Pope, Angelo Roncalli took the name of John, partly because it reminded him of John the Baptist, the precursor of the Lord, and of the other John, the beloved disciple and evangelist. Montini's choice was equally significant. "The name is a program in itself," exclaimed one Vatican cleric. Clearly, Pope Paul intended to recall the great Apostle to the Gentiles, who, said the editor of L'Osservatore Romano, is "a symbol of ecumenical unity, venerated by Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox Christians." It was St. Paul who internationalized the early church; it was Paul...
...Robinson points out, threatened to end up with "the conclusion that the Jesus of the kerygma could well be only a myth." Deprived of its link with the historical Jesus, Christianity might end up as some kind of existentialist philosophy, of which Christ was little more than a mythological symbol...
...Negro, I object to James Baldwin's being used as a symbol of Negro hopes and aspirations. Human problems develop because of a general refusal to accept individual responsibility. Every person must fight his own private battle; search his own soul; practice the selfish principles embodied in the Golden Rule...
...facts and statistics. Since 1947, the annual per capita consumption of dairy products has dropped from 768 Ibs. to 611 Ibs. The fear of cholesterol and the unpopularity of fat have permanently removed many Americans from the dairy bar, and many rebellious teenagers, who often regard milk as a symbol of childhood, have switched to drinking coffee, soft drinks or beer...
...government has yet to set a date for the election, the costly manifesto suggested that Prime Minister Macmillan intends to go to the people sooner rather than later-perhaps in the fall. Next day the Opposition burst into print with its own long-planned ad campaign featuring a new symbol, a well-knuckled Thumbs Up-the toiler's equivalent of the Tory V-for-Victory gesture-and the slogan: LET'S GO WITH LABOR. The Laborites devoted half of their first bold spread to a picture of Party Leader Harold Wilson-for once without a pipe-and used...