Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...limit the scope of investments eligible for capital gains. They now include not only securities and real estate, but ordinary dealing in timber and cattle breeding as well. Oil and other depletion allowances, which by Treasury estimates deprive the Government of $1.3 billion in revenue, have become the towering symbol of privilege and preference. They can spare oil companies and investors from taxes on 27½% of their revenue from operating an oil well. As long as a well produces, the depletion write-off continues, even if the original cost of exploration and drilling has been recaptured 19 times over...
...liberal. John Bunzel, a liberal political scientist at San Francisco State College, has been repeatedly shouted down in class; his two cars have been smeared with paint and their tires slashed; a bomb was placed outside his office. An S.D.S. student told him why: "You are a perfect symbol. You are over 40, you are white, and you have a doctor of philosophy degree. You are visible, in that you speak your mind in public. You are committed to reason. Your arguments are always rational and organized, but most of all you are a liberal. You represent liberal values...
...Cover: Oil painting by Birney Lettick. The constellation shining in the night sky is Aquarius. Drawn in the sand is the I Ching symbol for "Inner Truth." The crystal ball is a standard prop for clairvoyants; the Tarot cards are those for the devil and the sun. The palmist's hand shows the zodiacal signs...
...Whose mighty lion outside their Washington embassy has always been accepted by the capital as an inoffensive national symbol...
...Zapata ever said it, and the students attributed the remark to Father Hidalgo, the fervent but inept tocsin-sounder of the Revolution of 1810.) To the old regime in Zapata's time, he was a bandit of a new Attila; to the ruling class today, he remains the ominous symbol for the dark forces within the dispossessed which could still be stirred up at an moment. For those of us who like our history epic and our heroes simple and romantic, Zapata is Marlon Brando schmarfing to himself in his Speedy Gonzales accent...