Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Atlanta press conference that he was withdrawing from his campaign for re-election because he could not honor the loyalty oath that requires all Georgia Democratic candidates to support the state party ticket. Declared Weltner: "Today the one man in our state who exists as the very symbol of violence and oppression is the Democratic nominee for the highest office in Georgia. His entire public career is directly contrary to my deepest convictions and beliefs. And while I cannot violate my oath, neither can I violate my principles. I cannot compromise with hate." Atlanta's Democratic county committee nominated...
...women to run for Assembly election, the Catholic mother of eight from the Saigon suburbs was the only one to win, and hence is the only female among the 117 South Vietnamese now shaping their nation's constitutional future. Her campaign symbol was a picture of a mother with her child in arms, the mother representing the nation and the child its people, and it helped Mme. Xa come in as the Assembly's third highest vote getter. So did her calculated demeanor. "A woman must al ways be more careful than a man because she is being...
...sexy because taking them off to shake hands is an "act of undressing" which provides "skin contacts"; that shaving is a masochistic ritual associated with virility, and that therefore the most popular aftershave lotions "have to burn almost to the extent of hurting"; and that indigestion is a status symbol because it suggests high living and responsibility...
Hiring Negroes on the police force was the recurrent demand of civil rights groups since 1955. The lily-white police force was cited again and again as the symbol of the segregated life of Birmingham. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who stepped into the national limelight when he asked Dr. Martin Luther King to lead massive demonstrations in 1963, became a well-known local leader eight years earlier when he began carrying petitions to Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor asking that the force be integrated...
...must for historians, is in the picture Macmillan gives of the vanishing world of the British aristocracy. It was best described by Osbert Sitwell, a friend and brother Guards officer: "The world was a ripe peach and we were eating it"; or by Rupert Brooke, type and symbol of Britain's doomed youth: "Stands the Church clock at ten to three, / And is there honey still...