Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...investigation of the claims against Charles Engelhard reveals that he is more of a tool than a symbol. In fact, George Croft of The Boston Globe (Oct. 25, 1978, page 70) reports that Charles Engelhard was actually a liberal Democrat who was also a liberal on apartheid! Mr. Croft adds that Mr. Engelhard was a close friend of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and served as a personal representative of the White House at the coronation of Pope Paul VI and at the Independence Day celebrations in two Africa countries: Gabon and Zambia. Mr. Croft also quoted from a speech Engelhard...
Kids may wonder which Santa is real and why there are so many of him; yet Santa Claus remains a significant symbol to most children, the fat and jolly bringer of Battlestar Galactica and Baby Tenderlove. While collegians' thoughts may turn more to Santa Barbara than Santa Claus, the ubiquitous elf cannot easily be ignored. As the song goes, Santa Claus is coming to town--in force...
...ambassador to a small African nation. "That man isn't Elliot Richardson, it can't be," he whispers just a little too loudly. "He's an impostor. He hasn't answered one question straight yet." One of the U.N. organizers -- he is wearing a little badge with the VERITAS symbol superimposed on the U.N. symbol -- looks annoyed. It is a slow, shaky start...
Elders in Congress and the Cabinet delight in deriding him as the symbol of what ails the Carter Administration. Gossip columnists depict him as oafish, lecherous or both. His marriage has ended in divorce. Yet, having absorbed enough torpedoes to sink the most buoyant of careers, Hamilton Jordan has done more than merely stay afloat as Jimmy Carter's most trusted aide. He has expanded his range in both administrative and policy matters and is now even scrubbing up his image. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports...
Soon Western tourists will be swarming into China, occupying the six or seven Inter-Continental Hotels that are to be designed, constructed and operated by Americans. In Peking, officials are planning to revive an institution that once stood as a symbol of Western cultural imperialism: a foreign-run university with a foreign faculty teaching technical subjects to 10,000 Chinese students-in English...