Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Paul Conrad's cover cartoon of the leading presidential contenders [April 14] does reward "a few moments of savoring contemplation," but the really intriguing figure is the horse. This mean-and unpredictable-looking animal probably symbolizes the electorate upon whose support each "jockey" must ultimately depend. Is there not, however, an outside chance that it represents a "dark horse" candidate? A Mustang for Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy? A symbol of the long-departed past for Barry Goldwater? Or perhaps it is not a horse at all, but a mule standing for George Wallace's stubbornness...
...saluted. Turning back toward the semicircular rows of seats, he saluted three times more-to those on his left, to those in front of him, and to those on his right. It was a gesture that came instinctively to him after 31 years as an officer, but as a symbol of deference by a military man to the nation's civilian representatives, it was also politically astute...
...successful trip, not because of what he was saying but because everywhere that George went pickets and hecklers were sure to assemble in large, loud numbers. At Syracuse University, he was even burned in effigy the night before he spoke. That, he allowed, was just the kind of "status symbol" he appreciated...
...evident from the way Canadians joke about themselves. "We're an enormous Switzerland without the numbered accounts." "A Canadian is a man who hasn't yet had an offer from the U.S." Out of the trapping country of the Far North comes the gibe that "the symbol of Canada is the beaver, that industrious rodent whose destiny it is to furnish hats to warm better brains than his own." And a familiar aphorism holds: "We've had access to American know-how, British political wisdom and French culture. We've ended up with British know...
...even if the police were capable of destroying the Rangers, one might question the desirability of eliminating the gang. The Rangers are a symbol, representing the way toward a better future for the members of the gang and other youth in Woodlawn. The Rangers wield more power in Woodlawn than any civil rights group or social action committee. It is estimated they can mobilize 1000 youth within an hour to picket or kill. In destroying the gang, the police would extinguish a torch...