Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SYMBOLS themselves are meaningless, like words without perceptions. And to cling to any symbol--whether to be mindlessly patriotic or trendgoing punk--is decadent. And this is where the angst either emerges, or turns the knife inward. This is where confused fools lose themselves in their symbols and overdose, and it is where artists use their symbols, change them, flex them, adapt them, to express their angst. It's facing reality: Iggy Pop is a fool, Sid Vicious is dead, Johnny Rotten is dying, and Patti Smith is fucking with the future.*CrimsonLaura J. Levine...
...finally congealed." Moscow promised that the dissidents would soon be joined in the West by members of their immediate families. The Americans, however, failed to win the release of Anatoli Shcharansky, the leading Jewish dissident who was jailed for treason last summer. He was apparently too much of a symbol of resistance to the Soviet regime to be allowed to go free...
...retired welders, grandfathers, young housewives with children on their laps, sipped coffee on borrowed chairs and swapped views on local and national problems: the endless waiting lines at the state hospital, the expulsion of rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily. "We live in mud, we are treated like mud." Later, as quietly as they had assembled, the groups of a dozen or so members broke up and returned to their own impoverished lives...
...statement read Saturday on behalf of Moroz, Kuznetsov, Ginzburg and Dymshits, the four dissidents said, "yesterday, we were still deprived of all rights; today, we are here in a country which for more than 200 years has been a symbol of freedom...
...first-class scholar and leader, a symbol of the Ukrainian dissident movement," Omeljan Pritsak, Hrushevsikyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Institute, said Saturday...