Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frustrated fury of a Stokely Carmichael, written none of the rancorous tracts of a James Baldwin or a LeRoi Jones, drawn none of the huzzahs of a Louis Armstrong or a Joe Louis, a Willie Mays or a Rafer Johnson. He has never sought or wanted to be a symbol of negritude. There have always been two ways for members of minorities to rise: through purely individual achievement and through involvement in group action. But in the U.S., there is room for both types and, ultimately, each reinforces the other...
...symbol on our state flag is a golden bear," Governor Ronald Reagan told Californians. "It is not a cow to be milked." With that, Reagan turned from animal husbandry to husbanding the state's sorely strained resources. In his first month in office, he helped fire the state university's president, proposed that students pay tuition (see Education), and outlined a budget of reduced state services...
...power and the humor in all of Pinter's plays come from the presentation of this isolation and fear. The audience is free to conjecture relations homosexual or relations heterosexual, to pick out a symbol here or observe some principle of psychology. But the characters, Pinter tells us, live as do figures in our world: within themselves, fearing the open door through which can pass the undefined menace, never laughing. How can they laugh? Listening only to themselves, they always miss the punch line, or don't realize when they've spoken...
...Status Symbol. The renaissance in Athens is largely the work of President Vernon Alden, 43, who has brought about such rapid growth that he now actually worries about his university's becoming "massive, monolithic and impersonal." That worry, of course, is today's major academic status symbol...
...from an idyllic postwar voyage down the New England coast to the final, brilliant set piece, a Caribbean cruise over which Dave's doom gathers like a rifle slowly being sighted down a sunny avenue. A misty morning approach to Columbus' landfall on San Salvador provides the symbol of all that was thought possible, the poignancy of all that was believed lost, by the generation that knew Kennedy...