Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroes-to-be. "Not only were we supposed to change the world, but we were going to do it before we were 25," he says, looking a little surprised, now, at the expectations of an older generation. The Palisades High School class of '65, he suggests, serves as a symbol for all those graduating seniors, who suddenly discovered they weren't going to fulfill their parents' ambitious dreams...
...face of enormous opposition are miraculous, but they were never enough to satisfy the communist party chairman or occasion complacency. Even at age 72 he inaugurated a second revolution in China, aimed at "revisionists," whom Mao felt were not true to the goals of socialist revolution. As the personal symbol of China's potential for renewed vigor, Mao swam against the currents of the Yangtze River. When China's agricultural production dropped, he went without meat. Mao did not expect any Chinese citizen to make a sacrifice that he himself could not endure--he was a leader in the purest...
...referred to "born again" as an experience rather than an institutional affiliation. But the words become conventionalized, he says. They function as a code with overtones. They are, like an evocation, symbol-suffused. As with the symbolic communion in the Catholic church, vibrations reverberate around the term, Cox says. Included in those vibrations is the question, are you serious about your religion--is it personal...
...same time, Peking reaffirmed its main lines of policy toward the U.S. After Mao's death, Peking first stopped, then pointedly reinstated the three-week China tour of former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, who in Chinese eyes is a symbol of American toughness toward the Soviets and skepticism of détente. In their talks with him, the Chinese have emphasized the dangers of appeasing Moscow far more than their own differences with Washington over Taiwan...
...Waller, South Carolina's John West, Louisiana's Edwin Edwards?and Jimmy Carter. They have since spawned a second generation. In Arkansas, Moderate David Pry or succeeded Bumpers as Governor, defeating old Segregationist Orval Faubus. In Mississippi, Cliff Finch, who uses a workingman's lunch pail as his political symbol, has followed Waller...