Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class's commencement in 1969, when protestors descended on him and took away his microphone. "As I was lecturing them on the importance of reasoning sweetly together, they took away my microphone," Weld said. "So in that sense, since I was holding the microphone, I guess I was the symbol of what they were overtaking...
...demonstrators by the public figures (Senator Kennedy, Mrs. Onassis and Senator Brooke), present at the school's dedication. Engelhard is not perceived as an ethical public figure by the Kennedy School Community, by the Harvard community or by the world at large and thus has no place as a symbol of achievement on the walls of the school. Public figures must conduct their lives as if all their actions would be subject to public scrutiny. Public institutions must embody the ideals with which they seek to ennoble their community...
...Angeles World Affairs Council thought it would be a good idea to invite Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith as a guest speaker, but to Actress-Demonstrator Jane Fonda the notion amounted to unmitigated gall. She and 500 other protesters with pickets and bullhorns denounced Smith as a symbol of white-ruled Africa's racial policies. "We have enough problems here," Fonda declared, "without propping up a minority military regime. It is important to let him know that his philosophy is not welcome to millions of Americans." To Smith the hostility was nothing new: he has been greeted similarly...
Kennedy's speech elicited a standing ovation, but the talk of the luncheon that followed the ceremony seemed to the Smith's address. He called the naming of the school's library for Engelhard "a travesty and a damn shame," and claimed the late businessman is a symbol of U.S. support of the apartheid regime...
...discussion sometimes became more emotional. One student said former President Kennedy '40 had a "solid reputation" for integrity and ethical leadership, and was a symbol of civil rights reform, while Engelhard was linked with apartheid. To have the two names connected with the same building is "a contradiction," the student said...