Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost everywhere, Mao was held up as a symbol of self-sacrifice and hard work. China's press devoted itself to condolences and tributes that poured in from all regions of the country. Some were from peasants or workers from areas that Mao had visited during his revolutionary career, recalling the Chairman's kindness or inspirational qualities. One, by the "8341 unit" of the People's Liberation Army, charged with sentry duty at Mao's Peking residence, Forbidden City, stressed his abstemious habits and concern for the masses. Mao, the soldiers noted, worked "at all hours...
...ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the anti-busing campaign last year. Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR...
...South Bostonians are not unique, however; many blacks in Roxbury and Dorchester, on the exploitation score, "know where they're coming from." Parents in the black sections of town don't relish busing either, but for them the school bus has become a symbol of mobility, not upward mobility, but just some kind of mobility--a foot in the door to society. For desegregation alone will not change the poor black's view of city politics and power; even when a black student can look a white teacher in the eye at South Boston High, he still knows where that...
...aside, ironically enough, is the other woman who stamped her distinctive name on the antibusing campaign last year, Pixie Palladino. Last fall, Hicks and Palladino moved and shook together to form an initialed organization for busing foes, calling it ROAR, or Restore Our Alienated Rights, and selecting as its symbol a lion with one paw clamped to the head of a school bus. This year, however, a rift has opened in the organization and the two are engaged in a real cat fight, Palladino pulling about a quarter of their joint constituency away to start a new group, United ROAR...
...South Bostonians are not unique, however; many blacks in Roxbury and Dorchester, on the exploitation score, "know where they're coming from." Parents in the black sections of town don't relish busing either, but for them the school bus has become a symbol of mobility, not upward mobility, but just some kind of mobility--a foot in the door to society. For desegregation alone will not change the poor black's view of city politics and power; even when a black student can look a white teacher in the eye at South Boston High, he still knows where that...