Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presidents of five Central American republics: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Before leaving Texas, he conferred with Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve the practical purpose of revitalizing the floundering Central American Common Market. The five isthmus Presidents will discuss ways of hurdling the barriers dividing them, and Johnson's presence, a tangible symbol of U.S. interest...
Churning through the trash-strewn gumbo that had once been a manicured meadow, a federal bulldozer last week interred the last traces of Resurrection City. Its few remaining inhabitants scattered or imprisoned, the shantytown capital and symbol of the Poor People's Campaign had long since become an ugly, anarchic embarrassment to their cause...
...siege and heavy artillery bombardment from the North Vietnamese in mid-January, some observers saw an ominous similarity to Dienbienphu. The French base had been overrun in 1954 by another North Vietnamese army under the same commander besieging Khe Sanh, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Khe Sanh thus became a symbol -justifiably or not-of U.S. determination to stick it out under heavy pressure...
...Bozell, editor of the Catholic monthly Triumph (and brother-in-law of William Buckley), is its view of a world in which man is self-sufficient. "It is a question of a man-oriented order v. a God-oriented order," said Bozell. "Adam was the first liberal and the symbol of the liberal"-meaning that from the moment he touched the apple, Adam, like many a modern-day renewalist, was trying to take the world into his own hands...
None of this makes Maitland either admirable or appealing. The fascination of his character rests in the fact that Osborne has made him incontestably and hypnotically real and the symbol and substance of buffeted humanity in the complex 20th century. His fears are shocks of recognition for the audience. Where man was originally created in the image of God, Maitland is disturbed and resentful of his being remade in the image of the computer. He is outraged that the soothsayers of scientific progress seem to be sundering the old blood ties that linked man to man. Maitland envies the young...