Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was more symbol than substance in the move. Outside the buildings on Sofia's Alexander Stambolisky Boulevard and Budapest's Freedom Square, the LEGATION signs will be taken down as quickly as EMBASSY signs can be found. In both Communist capitals, U.S. ambassadors will replace lesser-ranked envoys. Thus, in agreeing with Bulgaria and Hungary to exchange ambassadors and upgrade legations to embassies, Lyndon Johnson laid in place another span of roadbed for the ever-lengthening "bridges across the gulf" that he is attempting to build between the U.S. and the Communist countries of Europe...
...velvety, bourbon-cured baritone is clearly the voice that pleases Harlem's voters. In November, though aware of his defiance of the courts, they gave him a twelfth term with 74% of the vote. To them, "Old Adam," preacher, politician and perennial bon vivant, is a supremely satisfying symbol-a Negro who has managed to outplay Whitey at his own game. Still, Powell is so widely detested in the House that precedent may provide him with no pillow...
NOBODY is mad at monarchy these days. Britain's angry John Osborne can sneer: "My objection to the royal symbol is that it is dead; it is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay." But that was nearly a decade ago, and even Osborne has simmered down since. Antiroyalism was once such an embattled issue that even Americans-who basically adore royalty-could echo Mark Twain's dictum: "There was never a throne which did not represent a crime." But nowadays monarchy is not much of a villain. And what would astonish Mark Twain is not that...
...Symbol Of Unity...
...Wieliczka salt miners, made in 1534 from a bison that roamed Central Europe, celebrates a mine dating back to prehistoric times. Offered in the king's name by the mine-owner to his well-organized craft guild, its backbreaking gesture seemingly turns their burdens into the symbol of an elegant cornucopia full of goodness...