Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...armies of tourists represent the first wave of a new pan-Europeanism. "The obsession of the new mass tourism is not to see a new country but to find two commodities: the sun and the sea." In Sampson's opinion, even the automobile, Europe's latest symbol of liberation and status, provides a chrome-trimmed distraction from serious subjects, including the concept of unity...
Whatever the portent, things were different in the academic world last year--different and difficult--and they continue so this year. The ivory tower has become a laughably grotesque symbol of the contemporary institution of higher learning. What do we do in such troubled circumstance as we are now experiencing? I suspect the path of prudence for those of us in positions of responsibility for academic institutions is simply to stay alert, to keep mindful of our distant goals, and in a tumultuous sea, to navigate as best we can. Fortunately, difficulties of the unsettling kind now being experienced...
...CRISIS is not just the draft for the war in Vietnam, though that is the most immediate symbol of it for those of us who "have it so good." The crisis is finding a way to live. It is a crisis faced by Harvard seniors, and by high school seniors in a ghetto who can't go to college. Do I fight for my country? Do I work for it? Do I ignore it? Do I try to change it? Do I work against it? Do I proceed alone, or share with others, and how many others? Will ever stop...
...manner?although, he adds, "we come by our paranoia honestly." By and large, Negro moderates argue that Jews have overreacted. They contend that the Negroes' real quarrel is with the racism of white society as a whole. Thus in New York the Jew is singled out as a visible symbol of oppression; but in New Orleans, the black's natural "enemy" is the Italian bourgeoisie, which predominates among ghetto store owners, and in San Francisco it is frequently the Japanese-American community...
...that as early as 1938 the area was seething with anti-Semitic resentment of Jewish merchants, who then owned three-fourths of the neighbor hood stores. "As the most highly vis ible and most immediately available white persons in the community," he wrote, "Jewish merchants tend to become the symbol of the Negroes' verbal attack on all white businessmen...