Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words were those of Enrico Berlinguer, the deputy leader of the Italian Communist Party, and he was addressing the other 74 delegations at the world Communist summit meeting in Moscow. Berlinguer was criticizing the 47-page communiqué that the Soviets hoped all the parties would sign as a symbol of Communist solidarity...
...standard of rational judgment, the monarchy, of course, is no longer necessary. However, there is a difference between a nation's rational and emotional needs. Britain's monarchy provides a link to the country's past and a unifying national symbol in the present. Modern monarchists cite the romantic?and atavistic?notion that the sovereign is a vital link between Britain and the Commonwealth at a time when other ties among the nations are falling away. Today, Britain is a small nation condemned to dwell amid the physical and remembered monuments of a much greater past. The monarchy makes that...
...Temple Fielding is a symbol of everything wrong with our society-superficial, antiseptic and self-righteous. In an increasingly complex and sensitive world, Fielding sends forth his legions of bores, who would rather pinch and proposition-than listen and understand...
...TAXES. House liberals balked at extending the 10% income tax surcharge, the most potent weapon available against inflation (see BUSINESS). In return for their support, they demanded a more thoroughgoing tax-reform package, including the oil-depletion allowances that have become a symbol of tax privilege. Only a last-minute personal intercession by Nixon saved the bill...
...Tufts University, a mustachioed triple honors graduate clumped onstage to receive his undergraduate degree, wearing, in addition to his black academic robe, sandals, white pants and a construction helmet with red ribbon attached. Dozens of graduating seniors at Brandeis proudly wore stenciled red fists -a symbol of dissent popular with Boston area student activists-attached to their robes. At Pomona College, something of the spirit of '69 was summed up by the class poet, James E. Rosenberg, who instead of a speech read a passionate poem of societal rebellion, replete with phallic imagery and four-letter bravado...