Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Germans who heard him could fail to be moved when De Gaulle cried: "Das deutsche Volk ist ein grosses Volk." A popular Christmas gift in West Germany last week was a recording of the speeches he made on that trip. Its name: De Gaulle in Germany, the Symbol of European Understanding...
...Checkpoint Charlie in divided Berlin, where U.S. and Soviet tanks once faced off at point-blank range, Communist border guards last week erected Christmas trees. It was as paradoxical a symbol as any to mark the fourth anniversary of Nikita Khrushchev's bold threat to force the West out of the city and sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany...
...whole debate has all the appearances of triviality, but the remarkable interest some Faculty members have already shown in today's meeting suggests that at stake there are principles that matter. The phrase Cum Laude, fortunately or not, continues to be the symbol of respectable intellectual achievement at Harvard; the encouraging thing has been that the Faculty was willing to embody in C.L.G.S. a concept of intellectuality beyond that of competence in a special discipline. Last year's vote strengthened that concept by removing the departmental voice altogether...
...first question concerns the fairness of the Republic's wide constitutional definition of treason; the second wonders if Germany's executive has done away with representative government; the third involves the embarrassing symbol of secret, sudden, police tactics; the fourth asks if a Cabinet minister and perhaps also the chief executive have been exploiting weaknesses in the constitution, ministries, and Bundestag to carry on a private feud. Getting ride of a few officials has neither answered these questions nor prevented them from being raised again and again the future. Nor has the government's response: largely confined to denouncing...
...through the use of false information and illegal high-pressure tactics. To date there have been more than 20,800 pages of testimony, 1,330 exhibits and 90 witnesses. Two jurors have been excused-one for illness, the other for financial hardship. Says Judge William B. Herlands patiently: "The symbol of justice is not the clock but the scales...