Word: symbolized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...message is clear. While the sparrow-presumably the Soviet Union -hopes for an easy paradise, the roc -a symbol of China-knows matters can be improved only by a revolution that turns the world "upside down...
Boat rocking did not come easily to the Rev. Alison Cheek, 48, the Episcopal priest who is both a leader and a symbol in the women's drive for an active role in the clergy. "The Episcopal seminary was good to me," recalls Cheek. "It allowed me to extend my course over six years instead of three so that I could raise my four young children. It hired me as a biblical-language instructor, which eased the financial strain. But it took me forever to stop feeling grateful and start feeling outraged that I felt so grateful...
...Protest Symbol. The election gave Israel its only Communist-controlled city hall, and many in the country were worried. The Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv called the vote "the most extreme expression of opposition to Israel." The Nazarenes viewed the election somewhat less extravagantly. Although Zayad's political record includes a dozen arrests for antigovernment activity, he was backed by most of Nazareth's leading doctors, lawyers and businessmen...
They were less interested in Zayad's Marxist politics than his usefulness as a symbol of protest against years of abuse by local leaders. Zayad prudently soft-pedaled his membership in Rakah, the small Moscow-leaning Israeli Communist party that holds four of the Knesset's 120 seats. "I did not run as a representative of Rakah," he insists. "I am a Nazarene...
Perhaps the final affirmation of handball's place in the human imagination is that writers throughout the ages have turned to it as an experience of epiphany. In repeated references in the Bible and in ancient Greek myth, handball appears as a rooting, elemental experience, the ultimate symbol of man's ties to the soil (the first handballs were, of course, balls of mud) from which he sprang. Squash, we might...