Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such a Sunday morning solicitation pointedly illustrates the ambiguity of the bank's role in the Harlem community. As Harlem's first Negrostaffed and directed bank, now only a year-and-a-half old, Freedom National Bank is a symbol of what Negroes can do to help themselves, according to the president of the bank, William F. Hudgins. Hudgins feels that going to the people by taking to the pulpit is a legitimate tactic in his crusade to bring full banking service to a community where discrimination in the money market is one of its many economic handicaps. He hopes...
...moment his tricolored, twin-flagged (French and Soviet) Caravelle touched down at Moscow's Vnukovo Airport to his week's end sortie into Siberia, De Gaulle trailed sparks and portents like a comet. Europe and the world scrutinized each move, each speech, each communique and each symbol for an indication of De Gaulle's intentions...
...Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles, the Stones, Ella, Frankie, Dylan, Gardol and S. & H. Green Stamps to 17.5 million listeners a week, or one Briton in three. Not only is the sport good for advertising bullion; the pirate stations have also become a symbol of the rebellion against the BBC, whose hoary morning Housewives' Choice is apt to consist of an Elvis Presley side, a Hawaiian number, a march, a Chris Barber moldy-fig opus-and, with luck, something as fresh as I Want to Hold Your Hand...
This may look to Western eyes like abject submission; the Asian sees it as the only way to win. In Taoism, the symbol of strength is water, which conforms to the shape of whatever it touches yet in the end cuts its own path through rock. Jujitsu (literally, "give-way art") is the art of defeating an aggressor with his own strength...
...mother goddess, giver of life, is also black and bloody Kali, the bringer of death and destruction. The West divides good and evil, and thinks evil can be destroyed-St. George killing the dragon, the Virgin crushing the serpent beneath her heel. The Hindus revere the serpent as the symbol of all nature, good and vile together. Asians generally are capable of believing that something is simultaneously good and bad, right and wrong, black and white-in a manner that drives the Western, Aristotelian, either-or mentality to distraction...