Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Edward McCrady was especially proud that Waring would get a degree alongside pro-integrationist Professor Kayden. McCrady envisioned "a true ministry of reconciliation." Last week, as Kayden withdrew "until a happier time when there is no ideological conflict in the South," Sewanee was left with Racist Waring as the symbol of its pride...
...Italian Poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, who in 1909 issued a flamboyant manifesto calling for a new philosophy of art suitable to the age of the machine. Not Pegasus, he declared, but the racing car, "with its hood draped with exhaust pipes like fire-breathing serpents," should be the new symbol of poetry. "A racing car, rattling along like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." The artist should "sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and boldness...
...state-run University of California at Los Angeles, which has stiffer academic standards and higher faculty salaries. To U.S.C. remains the past glory of nine Rose Bowl triumphs,* which the school went broke achieving, and the dubious honor (snapped one professor) "of having a sweaty jersey as the university symbol...
...Bentley cars produced each year, the Rolls seemed unlikely to disappear immediately-and even if it did, Rolls-Royce, Ltd. would survive on its aeroengine business, which now accounts for 85% of the company's sales. But even the suggestion that Lloyd might destroy the most famed surviving symbol of British craftsmanship won Lord Kindersley some surprising allies. "My heart doesn't bleed for the expense-account set," said one London workman over his nightly pint of bitter, "but if that's what keeps Rolls-Royce going, I'm willing to pay the price...
...runs the trade division for the National Committee on the Observance of Mother's Day: "It's like Christmas. If it weren't a gift-giving as well as a holy day, it wouldn't have the popularity it has. You gotta have a concrete symbol. If Christmas was just a church observance, it wouldn't have that heartfelt significance. And don't forget," he adds, "every family has a mother...