Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies, the lads bedizened with beads and scrapes, the lasses with furs and long velvet dresses. Then came the casket, a 15-ft. grey box labeled "Summer of Love," and behind it an equally outsized stretcher on which reclined a hirsute "corpse," clutching a zinnia to its breast-symbol of the death of the flower children. Television cameras ogled the scene as the mourners gathered around the casket and filled it with charms, peacock feathers, orange peels, bread (both edible and negotiable), flags, crucifixes, and a marijuana-flavored cookie. As the strains of God Bless America and Hari Krishna echoed...
...perennial parietal fight has this year been joined to a new issue--the role Harvard students should have in the decision-making of the College. Some student leaders and activists have seized upon parietals as a symbol of students' general lack of influence over the decisions that affect them. The rhetoric of student power, once common only in the circles of Students for a Democratic Society, has recently dominated the meeting of the traditionally subdued Harvard Undergraduate Council...
...envision," says a high-ranking Marine officer, "Con Thien's being overrun. It is a symbol in people's minds, but what we're talking about is the entire defense of the northern area. We are facing a major invasion. It's either fight it off or give...
...this review I have as yet not addressed myself to what is the most difficult aspect of the marihuana problem. For reasons which need not detain me, the use of marihuana has become a symbol of revolt by the young against their established elders. It has in many places taken a symbolic importance, particularly because those of my generation so deplore its use and are themselves so unwilling to discriminate between that which is inherently evil in marihuana and that which is not proved to be evil but merely undesirable...
...expenses mounted while house sales (only 582 so far) lagged behind. Many of Reston's starkly modern town houses proved too costly ($35,000 to $47,000) to lure buyers. In an effort to assure full occupancy of the 15-story apartment tower that makes Reston a symbol of urbanity in the boondocks, rents were set too low to repay the mortgage loan. As Gulf took over, Vice President William L. Henry estimated that Reston would need an injection of $12 million more cash by 1970 to move...